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.
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Mantram-9 :

"Eso-'nuratma cetasa veditavyo yasyamin pranah pancadha sam-vivesa

pranais-cittam sarvam-otamprajnanam yasmin visudhe vibhavaty-esa atma."

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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 faculty which operates as sight, hearing, thinking, understanding, and everything that the other functions are capable of reporting to us. Intuition is actually the soul operating from inside. The soul has no eyes and ears; therefore, the knowledge which the soul manifests from itself is not seeing, hearing, etc. It is direct, immediate apprehension. Here the word ‘chetas’ is used to signify the deepest intuition possible.

Yasyamin pranah pancadha sam-vivesa :

The fivefold pranas and the mind are all located in this central function. The five pranas are prana, apana, vyana, udhana and samana. 

pranais-cittam sarvam-otamprajnanam : 

The mind is enveloped by the powers of the sense organs, and amidst these functions there is the Atman shining independently of these separated functions, and yet causing the functions to take place independently. As the Sun who has no colour may appear as sevenfold in colour when its light is passed through a prism, for instance, the single faculty of intuitional apprehension may look like sensory operations, mental thinking, intellectual understanding, etc., because of the prism-like action taking place in the psyche of the individual through which the integral light of the Atman passes. This integral light is called intuition, insight, direct experience, etc. Subtle is this Atman, capable of being known only through inward intuition in which all the pranas and the sense organs are located, and in which the mind, together with sense organs, is fixed, in the midst of which this Atman shines.

End.

NEXT - 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) : 

To be continued ...

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