Mundakopanishad : Chapter-2. Section-1. Mantram-3. Post - 4. Swami Krishnananda

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter 2:
Section 1,
Mantram-3 : Brahmam - The Supreme Cause of All. 
Post-4

"Etasmaj jayate prano manah sarvendriyani ca, 
kham vayur - jyotir - apah prthivi visvasya dharini." (2.1.3): 

From this great Purusha, everything comes. The Cosmic Prana, Hiranyagarbha, emanates from this Supreme Brahman. The Virat, which is called here the manas, also emanates from that Brahman. 

All the indriyas, or the sense organs, also emanate from That.

They are actually the feeders, the tentacles of Consciousness. 

Kham vayur jyotir apah prthivi visvasya dharini: 

The five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—the very Earth that sustains us, the basis of all, emanate from That. 

The whole Brahmanda, the fourteen worlds, seven above and seven below, which are the permutations and combinations, modifications of gross forms or subtle forms, or the real forms of the five elements, all these come from one breath, as it were, of this one Supreme Being.

Next -  Mantram - 4. : Cosmic form of Brahmam - the Indweller of all living beings. 

To be continued ...


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