Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

  ------------------------------------------------ Thursday, October 01, 2020. 5:15.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-6 & 7 : Rituals and means to perform them are also born from the imperishable Post-11 ------------------------------------ Mantram-6. Tasmad rcah sama yajumsi diksa  yajnas ca sarve kratavo daksinas ca,  samvat-saras-ca yajamanas ca lokah  somo yatra pavate yatra suryah. (2.1.6):  ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. From this Being, everything proceeds, it is said. The Vedic verses, mantras, are also emanations of this Being, which means the truths contained in the Veda mantras are eternally there as projections of certain aspects in the manifestation of Brahman tattva. The chants, the Yajurveda mantras and the formulae that are employed in the performance of sacrifices, the rites connected with these yajnas, the ceremonies of various types, the gifts and so on, even the time chosen for the sacrifi...

  ------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, September 15, 2020.10:16.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-10 ------------------------------------ Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. Anna is the product of this concentration of the will of Brahman. All that is produced can be regarded as anna and, in this sense, the finitude itself is a product. It is anna for the concentrated will of the Atman to manifest itself as an individual. And the finitude causes another product which is its anna—namely, the reason or the intellect. The mind is the anna, or the product of the reason; the prana is the anna, or the product of the mind; the physical body is the anna, or the product of the prana. As it happens in ...

------------------------------------------------ Sunday, September 06, 2020.10:11.AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 1, Mantram-5 : Sequence of creation from the imperishable, Continued ... Post-9 ------------------------------------ Mantram-5. "Tasmad agnih samidho yasya suryah somat parjanya osadhayah prthivyam, puman retah sincati yositayam vahvih prajah purushat samprasutah." (2.1.5). ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. For instance, in order that the physical body may shape itself into this particular form that we see, it has first of all to be vitalised by the prana which is within. The within-ness of the prana is the reason why there appears to be life and vitality in the physical body. In a similar way, activities in this world, all the processes of human history, have a cause behind the physical realm. There is a superphysical cause for all that happens in the physical world. 2. The way in which the pran...