Mundakopanishad : Chapter-3. Section-1. Mantram- 7. - Swami Krishnananda.

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Friday, June 18, 2021. 8:50. AM.
Mundakopanishad
Chapter 3, 
Section 1,
Mantram-7 : Nature of the Supreme Abode 
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Mundakopanishad : Chapter-3. Section-1. Mantram- 7.
Mantram-7. Nature of the Supreme Abode :

"Brhacca tad divyam-acintaya-rupam,

suksamac-ca tat suksama-taram vibhati,

dirat sudere tad-ihantike ca,

pasyatasvi-haiva nihitam guhaayam."  (3.1.7): 

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'Brhacca' is this Brahman, larger than space is its size ; 

Divyam : divinity supreme; 

Acintaya-rupam : unthinkable is its form; s

Suksamac-ca tat suksama-taram vibhati : subtler than the subtle is its inner subjectivity. First it was said it is larger than the largest. Now we are told it is subtler than the subtlest, smaller than the smallest.

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Dirat sudere tad-ihantike ca, : Most remote it is, and also very near it is. It is as far from us as the horizon. We cannot touch it; we cannot know where it is. The horizon recedes further and further the more we move in its direction, and we will never touch it. The end of space cannot be seen. Space is so far, but this is even further. That is the distance between us and God. But it is so near because it is our very Self, the Atman.

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Pasyatasvi-haiva nihitam guhaayam. : It is in the cave of the heart of the individual, and also in the cave of the heart of the universe. It is the soul of the universe, and is also the soul of every individual being. The question of distance does not arise here in Consciousness. The ideas of remoteness and nearness, etc., arise from our living in space, time and objectivity. As there is no distance or measuring of separation of one thing from another, and there is no duration of time, and there is nothing external—neither space nor time, nor objectivity—the statement that it is farther than the farthest and nearer than the nearest has to be taken in the sense of a metaphor explaining that Brahman is everywhere and all things. It is the deepest root of our heart.

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End.

Next - Mantram-8.Unique means of Self-realisation ... Purification of mind.

"Na caksusa grhyate napi vaca

Na-anyair-devais-tapasa karmana va

Jnana-prasadena visuddhah

tatastu tam pasyate niskalam dhyaya-manah" (3.1.8): 

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To be continued ...

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