Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

 =================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-1. Birth of all beings from Brahmam, like sparks from fire. Post-1 -------------------------------------------------- Mantram-1. Tad-etat satyam yatha sudiptat pavakad visphulingah sahastrasah prabhvante sarupah, tatha-ksharad vividhah saumya bhavah prajayante tatra caivapi-yanti.  ------------------------------------- 1. “O Master, how has this world come?” The disciple raises the question. There are various ways of answering this question of how this world has come. In the beginning the answer will depend on the ability of the mind of the student to understand, because the student imagines that the world has come from something. Even without seeing the world coming from something, we put questions such as: “Who created this world?” Why should the world be created...

====================================== -------------------------------------------------------------- 17/04/2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter-1. Section-2. Mantram 13 : "Instructions to teachers on initiating fit students." --------------------------------------------------------- Mantram: "Tasmai sa vidvan-upasannaya samyak prasanta-cittaya saman-vitaya, yenaksharam purusham veda satyam provaca tam tattvato brahma-vidyam." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : "To that pupil who has thus approached him in a proper manner, whose mind is at rest and whose senses are subdued, let the wise teacher truely teach that Brahma Vidya ( Science of Brahmam ) by which true immortal Purusha is known."  --------------------------------------------------------- Discourse - To such a sincere disciple who humbly approaches the Master with restrained mind, with no desires whatsoever, endowed with sama, dama...