Mundakopanishad : Chapter-3. Section-1. Mantram-2. Post - 2. - Swami Krishnananda.

 

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Monday,  April 12, 2021. 11:21. AM.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter 3, 
Section 1,
mantram-2 (Annihilation of sorrow through God Realisation)
Post - 1.
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(3.1.2) : 
Mantram-2.

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"Samane vrkse puruso nimagno’
nisaya socati muhyamanah, 
justam yada  pas yaty anyam isam asya 
mahimanam iti, vita-sokah"

 (3.1.2) : Helplessly sunk in the apparent joy of the sweetness of the fruit, one of these birds is also, at the same time, sunk in sorrow, because we do not merely suck the fruit, the fruit also sucks us. We do not merely get stuck in the object, the objects sticks to us. The more we try to grab objects, the more will objects try to grab us, like crocodiles. If we try to grab a crocodile with our hands, it will grab us with greater force.

In the Upanishads, the sense organs are called graha because they grasp, and the objects are called atigraha, the greater grabbers. Our condition may be really pitiable if we give a long rope to these sense organs and allow them to go on grabbing objects, because the result would be that the objects will grab us with a greater force. The result would be utter helplessness, and one will be reduced to slavery to such an extent that it will be difficult to distinguish between oneself and the object outside. The slave is like an object; he has no subjectivity. He does not think in terms of himself; he always thinks in terms of his master. So we are like slaves thinking in terms of our master, which is this world of objects, and we have no independence ourselves. We are caught and bound in the chain of this helplessness caused by our indulgence in the objects which appear to be our masters. 

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Samane vrkse puruso nimagno’
nisaya socati muhyamanah :

Deluded is this bird that is indulging itself like this.

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justam yada  pas yaty anyam isam :

When by chance this indulgent bird has time to look around and see the other bird seated there, the most adorable Being, the moment we behold it, our bondage is snapped. The vision of God is also the end of all sorrow. The consciousness of universality is the cessation of attachment to particularity. But we are not able to maintain an awareness of this Universal in us. We cannot see that there is a bird called the Universal in us. We see only the object in front of us. The moment we become aware of the Universal bird, the consciousness of its existence will redeem us at once.

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justam yada  pas yaty anyam isam asya 
mahimanam iti, vita-sokahh : 

When the glory of that Universal bird is seen, all the sorrow of indulgence and involvement in things in the world ceases at once, as night departs when the Sun rises. They are simultaneous, and do not come one after the other.

To be continued ....

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