Mundakopanishad : Chapter-2. Section-2. Mantram-1. Post - 17. Swami Krishnananda.

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Saturday, December 05, 2020. 06 : 01. PM.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter 2:
Section 2,
Mantram- 1. Brahmam and the Universe are one,  Knowing Brahmam destroysthe knots of Ignorance.
Post - 17.

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Chapter-2, Section -2. Mantram-1. (Pointers to the nature of Brahmam and advice how to know it.

Avih sannihitam guhacaram nama,

mahat padam - atraitat samarpitam, 

ejat pranan - mnimisac-  ca yad etat- janatha sad - asad 

varenyam param vijñanad yad - variishtam prajanam (2.2.1). 

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Manifest outside is this very thing that is the deepest source of our aspirations. Verily, in front of our eyes is manifest that very thing which is otherwise inconceivable. The deepest within is also there as the perceivable form before the senses. It is deepest in the heart, no doubt, but it is also capable of appearing before our very eyes as the thing that we see. This Brahman is the great manifested support of all beings. It is the cause of all our experiences. It is very close to us, nearer than our neck, yet it is inside in the cavity of the heart. Everything that breathes, everything that is alive, all beings whether moving or not moving, anything that winks, all these are rooted in this one single Being as spokes are fixed in the hub of a wheel. It is the cause of both the gross and the subtle. It is the most adorable of all beings.

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 (Kena 4.6) says :. How do you adore Brahman as the most lovable of all beings, the dearest of objects? 

Varenyam: Varenya is the adorable. It is adorable because it is great and grand, and adorable because it is lovable and dear. It has two aesthetic characteristics, sublimity and beauty, and both are to be seen in God. This is the great Brahman tattva, the Atma tattva.

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Might and attraction, both qualities are in God. Very few things combine these characteristics. There is great strength in a bulldozer; it can crush us if we go near it, but it has no beauty. It does not attract us, and we do not want to go on looking at it. It has a great force, a crushing force, a great power, but no beauty. But certain beautiful things have no power, such as a flower in the garden. A rose, a jasmine, a lotus are very beautiful, but they are not strong and powerful like an elephant. God is power and beauty combined.

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To be continued 

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