Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,  Septembert 18, 2021. 3:00. PM. Mundakopanishad SANSKRIT Mantras ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3: Section 1 1. dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyā samānaṁ vṛkṣam pariṣasvajāte tayor anyaḥ pippalaṁ svādv attyanaśnann anyo’bhicākaśīti. 2. samāne vṛkṣe puruṣo nimagno’nīśayā śocati muhyamānaḥ, juṣṭam yadā paśyaty anyam īśam asya mahimānam iti, vīta-śokaḥ. 3. yadā paśyaḥ paśyate rukma-varṇaṁ kartāram īśam puruṣam brahma-yonim, tadā vidvān puṇya-pāpe vidhūya nirañjanaḥ paramaṁ sāmyam upaiti. 4. prāṇo hy eṣa yaḥ sarva-bhūtair vibhāti vijānan vidvān bhavate...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swami Chinmayananda -SatsangaM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday,  Septembert 13, 2021.8:00. PM. Mundakopanishad SANSKRIT Mantras -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2: Section 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantra-s : ---------------------------------------- tad etat satyam: 1. yathā sudīptāt pāvakād visphuliṅgāḥ sahasraśaḥ prabhavante sarūpāḥ, tathākṣarād vividhāḥ, saumya, bhāvāḥ prajāyante tatra caivāpi yanti. 2. divyo hy amūrtaḥ puruṣah sa bāhyābhyantaro hy ajaḥ, aprāṇo hy amanāḥ śubhro akṣarāt parataḥ paraḥ. 3. etasmāj jāyate prāṇo manaḥ sarvendriyāṇi ca, khaṁ vāyur jyotir āpaḥ pṛthivī viśvasya dhāriṇī. 4. agnir mūrdhā, cakṣuṣī candra-sūryau, diśaḥ śrotre, vāg vivṛtāś ca vedāḥ, vāyuḥ prāṇo hṛdayaṁ viśvam, asaya padbhyām pṛthivī hy eṣa sa...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday,  Septembert 07, 2021.8:00. PM. Mundakopanishad SANSKRIT Mantras -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: Section 1&2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter-1, Section-1,  Mantras : 3.śaunako ha vai mahāśālo’ṅgirasaṁ vidhivad upasannaḥ papraccha, kasmin nu bhagavo vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātam bhavati iti. 4.asami sa hovāca: dve vidye veditavye iti ha sma yad brahmavido vadanti, parā caivāparā ca. 5.tatrāparā ṛg-vedo yajur-vedaḥ sāma-vedo’tharva-vedaḥ śikṣā kalpo vyākaraṇaṁ niruktaṁ chando jyotiṣam—iti. atha parā yayā tad akṣaram adhigamyate. 6.yat tad adreśyam, agrāhyam, agotram, avarṇam, acakṣuḥ-śrotraṁ tad apāṇi-padām, nityam vibhum sarva-gataṁ susūkṣmaṁ tad...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday,  Septembert 07, 2021.8:00. PM. Mundakopanishad SANSKRIT Mantras -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: Section 1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,2. Lineage of teachers : 1."Om brahmā devānām prathamaḥ sambabhūva  viśvasya kartā bhuvanasya goptā,  sa brahma-vidyāṁ sarva-vidyā-pratiṣṭhām  arthavāya jyeṣṭha-putrāya prāha." "Of the Gods, Brahmaji the  Creator and the protector of the universe was self=born first. He gave out the knowledge of Reality (Brahma Vidya), the knowledge of  all knowledges, the foundation for all sciences, to his own eldest son Athaeva." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2."Artha...

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, Septembert 03, 2021.8:00. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3, Section 2, Mantram-10 &11. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tad etat ṛcābhyuktam : kriyāvantas śrotriyā brahmaniṣṭhās svayaṁ juhvata ekaṛṣim śraddhayantaḥ, teṣam evaitām brahma-vidyāṁ vadeta śirovrataṁ vidhivad yais tu cīrṇam." (3.2.10): This Upanishad is not to be taught to everybody. This is what this mantra says. We should not go on blabbering it in public, unless they are sufficiently purified in their minds to receive its import and meaning. Kriy?vanta?: Only those people who have performed their duties well in this life should listen to it. Otherwise, they will have a wrong notion of there being no duty in this world and will be like a half-baked pot or a raw vegetable, which is of no utility....

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 30, 2021.9:30. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3, Section 2, Mantram-8 & 9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  "Yathā nadyas syandamānās samudre  astam gacchanti nāma-rūpe vihāya,  tathā vidvān nāma-rūpād vimuktaḥ  parāt- param puruṣam upaiti divyam." (3.2.8):  We attain to that Supreme Eternal Purusha and merge into that Purusha, uniting ourselves with that Supreme Being. As rivers flowing in different directions commingle with the ocean and we cannot know where what river is, all the jivas who have been liberated will melt into this great Atman, the Universal Being, as rivers melt in the ocean. As nama and rupa, names and forms, are dissolved in the ocean—Ganga is no more Ganga, Yamuna is no more...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 26, 2021.9:55. PM. Mundakopanishad ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3,Section 2, Mantram-7. (Nature of Liberation.) Gatah kalah pancadasa pratishtah  devasca sarve prati- devatasu,  karmani vijñanamayas ca atma pare’vyaye sarve eki- bhavanti (3.2.7):  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the faculties get dissolved. There are various faculties in us. There are five senses of knowledge, five senses of action, five pranas, and there is manas, buddhi, ahankara, chitta. These are the kalas, or the faculties. They suddenly melt like snow before the heat of the Sun. Gatah kalah pancadasa pratishtah :  Here fifteen faculties are mentioned, which ...

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 22, 2021.8:27. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,Section 2, Mantram-6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-6:Liberation is their's who gain clear understanding. "Vedāntā-vijñāna-suniścitārthāḥ  saṁnyāsa-yogād yatayaḥ śuddhasattvāḥ,  te brahma-lokeṣu parāntakāle  parāṁṛtāḥ parimucyanti sarve." (3.2.6) :  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those seekers, knowers, whose internal nature has been purified by a life of intense quest and renunciation, and those who are well established in the Atman and who have been illumined by the knowledge of the Vedanta Shastra, whose mind has been fixed forever in one given direction, who have attained a conviction which ...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 17, 2021.8:29. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,Section 2, Mantram-5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-5. Description of attaining Brahmam : "Sampra-pyainam-rsayojnana-trptah krtatmano vita-ragah prsantah, te sarvagam sarvatah prapya dhira yukta-masarva-meva-visanti." (3.2.5):  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatvam of the mantram : "When the Rishis have attained Atman they become satisfied with their knowledge, their purpose fulfilled, they become free from desire and they gain tranquility. Having attained the  all-pervading Atman everywhere, the wise thereafter devoted to the Self, enter into everythong."  ----------------------------------...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 11, 2021.9:56. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,Section 2, Mantram-4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nayam atma bala-hinena labhyo na ca pramadat tapaso vapy alingat, etair upayair yatate yas tu vidvams tasyaisa atma visate brahma-dhama ."(3.2.4): A weakling cannot attain the Atman. The word ‘bala-h?nena’ has been used here in a different sense. It does not mean that elephants will reach God, and human beings will not, because elephants have greater strength than humans. Here, strength means toughness of the inner spirit. Of course it also means physical health, which is very necessary; but more than that, it means inner toughness of spiritual aspiration and the power of tapas, the strength of freedom from desire. All these are implied here by energy, strength, ba...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, August 6, 2021.9:12. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,Section 2, Mantram-3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-3. "Nayam-atma pravacanena labhyo  na medhaya, na bahuna srutena:  yam evaisa vriute tena labhyah  tasyaisa atma vivriute tanum svam." (3.2.3) :  The Self is not attained through discourses, not through memorizingScriptural texts, nor through much learnng. It is gained only by him who wishes to attain it with his whole heart. To such a one the Self reveals its true nature.  * This Slokam also occurs in the Kathopanishad.  It means that logical disquisitions are not the means of knowing the Atman. Not by intellection, not by academic knowledge, and not ...

========================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 30, 2021.12:55. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,  Section 2, Mantram-2. ( Cessation of cycle of re-birth through desireless-ness.) -------------------------------------------- Mantram -2 : "Kaman yah kamayate manya-manah  sa kamabhir - jayate tatra tatra,  paryapta-kamasya krt-atmanas tu  ihaiva sarve pravi-liyanti kamah." (3.2.2):  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we desire anything, we will be born according to the nature of the desire. Inasmuch as every day we accumulate desires and go on piling them one over the other, and the duration of our lifespan is not long enough to permit us to enjoy all those desires, we die before the desires are fulfilled. Some of them are of course fulfilled, but many of them are not, and our unfulfi...

======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 23, 2021.10:41. AM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,  Section 2, Mantram-1. ( Desireless men get liberatedby worshipping "a knower of Brahmam.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 3, Section-2, Mantram- 1. "Sa vedaitat paramam brahma dhama   yatra viśvaṁ nihitam bhāti śubhram,  upasate purusham ye hy akamas  te sukram etad ativartanti dhirah." (3.2.1) : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commentary :  Whoever knows this Brahman in which the universe in all its vastness is fixed, and which shines more radiantly than the Sun, and those peopl...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, July 15, 2021. 7:59. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,  Section 1, Mantram-10.A desirer of prosperity should worship the knower of Brahmam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-10. "Yam yam lokam manasa samvibhati visuddha-sattvah kamayate yam ca kaman,  tam tam lokah jayate tams ca kaman tasmad-atmajñam hy- arcayed bhuti-kamah." (3.1.10) :  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we apprehend this Self in direct experience, whatever we wish to have will be in our hand. Whatever world we want to reach will be reached by us instantaneously. It may be the highest heaven, and we shall be there instantly. Ancient rishis were of this power. Narada can traverse through all the worlds as we can ...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 07, 2021. 7:09. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,  Section 1, .Mantram-9. Realisation of Self in human body through purification of mind. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-9 : "Eso-'nuratma cetasa veditavyo yasyamin pranah pancadha sam-vivesa pranais-cittam sarvam-otamprajnanam yasmin visudhe vibhavaty-esa atma." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This subtle Atman is to be known only through intuition, in which the mind, the intellect and the sense organs stand together as if they melt into a single faculty. The mind thinks, the intellect understands, the eyes see, the ears hear, and so on, but intuition, or insight, is a single ...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 28, 2021. 7:09. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 3,  Section 1, Mantram-8.Unique means of Self-realisation ... Purification of mind. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mantram-8 : "Na caksusa grhyate napi vaca  Na-anyair-devais-tapasa karmana va Jnana-prasadena visudhah sattvas tatas tu tam pasyate niskalam dhyaya-manah." (3.1.8) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatvam ( Essence ) of the mantram :  "The Self cannot be described by words, nor pereived by the eyes or the senses, nor revealed by rituals and penance.  When the understanding becomes calm and refined, then alone, in meditation one realises Him, the Absolute." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...