Mundakopanishad : Chapter-2. Section-1. Mantram-5-continued , . Post - 8. Swami Krishnananda

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Thursday, August 27, 2020.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter 2:
Section 1,
Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ...
Post-8
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Mantram-5.

"Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah
somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam,
puman retah sincati yositayam
vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5).
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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.


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These passages of the Mundaka Upanishad that we are presently studying deal with the creative process of the Universe—the cause producing the effect, and the cause persisting to have influence over the effect continuously until the very end. The verse concerning the Panchagni Vidya is an astounding doctrine of not only there being causes behind causes, an endless series of connections and concatenations, but also one thing influencing the other. The Upanishad is a knowledge that cuts off all attachments. It is the secret wisdom that severs the tree of bondage. One of the ways it adopts is to instil into the minds of the students the nature of the world, so that when it is properly understood, or investigated into, it will no more be a source of attraction and repulsion, love and hatred.


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The occurrences in the world, the events taking place in space and time, the very historical process of mankind—all these are certain occurrences first taking place in the worlds that are above this Earth, just as the manifestation of our own physical body is not a sudden occurrence or an abrupt manifestation from nowhere but a gradual concretisation of impulsions and intentions coming from within.

To be continued ...


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