Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Yamuna, and n

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 are actually the five pr

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 is forever

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 by scriptural study—it s