Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 27, 2020. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. This is one answer of the Guru in reply to the disciple’s question of how things have come at all. Generally, when disciples go to Gurus, this is the first question they put. Why was this world created, and who created it? They have many other questions, no doubt, but the first question that generally arises in the mind of a student is how this world has come. And here is a tentative answer, according to the understanding of the disciple for the time being. 2. ...

---------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 17, 2020.8:06.PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-7 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. osadhayah prthivyam : When rain falls, plants grow. There is harvest in the fields, and vegetables and all edibles in the world become available to us. But how does rain fall? A great activity is taking place in the sky, over which we have no control. We cannot create rain, and we will all perish if there is no rain. These vegetables and foodstuffs are eaten by man and are finally converted into the bloodstream, and then into the essences which are responsi...

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 06, 2020.2:51.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable Post-6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam,  puman retah sincati yositayam  vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5).  The creation process is described here in terms of the Panchagni Vidya, which is described in more detail in the Chhandogya Upanishad. This is a very interesting concept that we have in the Upanishads—the Panchagni Vidya, the fivefold descent through which any event in the world can be imagined to take place. Events do not take place merely on Earth; they take place in heaven first. A vibration takes place in the highest heaven, and here this heavenly vibration is called Agni, or the supreme fire of the original cosmic activity. The Sun may be r...