Mundakopanishad : Chapter-2. Section-1. Mantram-4. Post - 5. Swami Krishnananda

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Wednesday, July 08, 2020.10:46.AM.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter 2:
Section 1,
Mantram-4 : Cosmic form of Brahmam - the Indweller of all living beings.
Post-5
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Mantram-4.

"Agnir-murdha chakshusi chandra-suryau
disah srotre vag vivrtasca vedah,
vayuh prano hrdayam visva- masya
padbhyam prthivi hyesa sarva- bhutani-ratma."  
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This Cosmic Being is described here as something like the Vishvarupa Darshana of the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita.

Agnir murdha: Agni here represents heaven. The radiant heavens are the head of the Supreme Being.

Chakshusi chandra-suryau: The Sun and the Moon are the eyes of that Supreme Being. 

Disah srotre: The entire quarters of space are the ears, as it were, of that Being. 

Vag vivrtasca vedah : The Vedas are its words, or the speech it utters. 

Vayuh prathivi : The entire cosmic breath, the entire air, the wind, the universal prana, is its breath. 

Hrdayam visvam, asaya : The whole universe is its heart. 

Padbhyam prthivi : The gross form of physical manifestation in the form of this Earth may be regarded as its footstool. 

Esa sarva-bhutantaratma : This is a picture before you of the all-pervading Soul of all beings.

This illustration is to point out that all things that we can conceive in our mind or see with our eyes are part of this Great Being, limbs of the Virat Purusha. That something is the eye, something is the head, something is the foot is only illustrative of everything being somehow or other organically connected with this Being. 

The whole universe is its body: Esa sarva-bhutantaratma.
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Next -  Mantram - 5. : Sequence of creation from the imperishable
To be continued 


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