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

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========================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 unfulfilled desires w

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

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======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 people who are devo

Mundakopanishad : Chapter-3. Section-1. Mantram-10. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 move thro

Mundakopanishad : Chapter-3. Section-1. Mantram- 9. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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