Mundakopanishad : Chapter-2. Section-1. Mantram-1. Post -1. Swami Krishnananda
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Mundakopanishad
Chapter 2:
Section 1,
Mantram-1. Birth of all beings from Brahmam, like sparks from fire.
Post-1
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Mantram-1.
Tad-etat satyam yatha sudiptat pavakad
visphulingah sahastrasah prabhvante sarupah,
tatha-ksharad vividhah saumya bhavah
prajayante tatra caivapi-yanti.
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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 by anybody?
We imagine that this world must have been created by someone, and as this assumption is already in the mind, one has to take the stand of the disciple in assuming that there is a cause for this world; so initially, by a kind of illustration and analogy, the cause of the world, and the manner of its coming from the cause, are described in this mantram.
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2.
Here is the truth, the answer to your question.
From a large conflagration of fire, thousands of sparks emanate in all directions.
In a similar manner, varieties of individualities—species of beings and things—emerge from this Imperishable Reality and return to it, as sparks of fire that rise from the conflagration shoot up and then go back to their source, which is the fire itself.
Thus is the world coming from its cause, which is the Imperishable Brahman. It comes, it is sustained, and it returns. There is a beginning, and a middle, and an end for this world.
Therefore, the world is not real, merely because of this simple fact that it has a beginning and an end, and a tentative middle.
To be continued ....
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Mundakopanishad
Chapter 2:
Section 1,
Mantram-1. Birth of all beings from Brahmam, like sparks from fire.
Post-1
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Mantram-1.
Tad-etat satyam yatha sudiptat pavakad
visphulingah sahastrasah prabhvante sarupah,
tatha-ksharad vividhah saumya bhavah
prajayante tatra caivapi-yanti.
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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 by anybody?
We imagine that this world must have been created by someone, and as this assumption is already in the mind, one has to take the stand of the disciple in assuming that there is a cause for this world; so initially, by a kind of illustration and analogy, the cause of the world, and the manner of its coming from the cause, are described in this mantram.
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2.
Here is the truth, the answer to your question.
From a large conflagration of fire, thousands of sparks emanate in all directions.
In a similar manner, varieties of individualities—species of beings and things—emerge from this Imperishable Reality and return to it, as sparks of fire that rise from the conflagration shoot up and then go back to their source, which is the fire itself.
Thus is the world coming from its cause, which is the Imperishable Brahman. It comes, it is sustained, and it returns. There is a beginning, and a middle, and an end for this world.
Therefore, the world is not real, merely because of this simple fact that it has a beginning and an end, and a tentative middle.
To be continued ....
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