Mundakopanishad : Chapter-3. Section-2. Mantram-7. - Swami Krishnananda.

-

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



---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 pranas, the five senses of knowledge, and the five senses of action. With the mind included, it becomes sixteen. But here fifteen are mentioned, and these fifteen kalas, or we may say sixteen kalas—all the perceptive and cognitive faculties—dissolve. Together with that dissolution, individuality itself dissolves.

devasca sarve prati- devatasuu : 

All the divinities superintending over the sense organs withdraw themselves. They also get dissolved because the locations of these gods are dissolved. When one’s seat is gone, one has to quit that place. So the gods who were controlling our sense organs, our faculties—Brahma was ruling the intellect, Moon was ruling the mind, Rudra was ruling the ego, Vishnu was ruling the chitta, the Sun was ruling the eye, and so on—these gods will no longer have a function to perform. They return to their original sources, and the faculties merge.

karmani vijñanamayas ca atma pare’vyaye sarve eki- bhavanti :

Even our karmas are dissolved. We need not pay a penalty for what we have done, because the fire of knowledge has burnt all actions to ashes. The fire of knowledge can reduce to ashes even a mountain of sins. And the intellect, which is the seat of the ego, also goes with it. What happens? This individual soul, with all these appurtenances mentioned, with all its properties and belongings, psychically in their nature, go and settle themselves in that Imperishable Being and get united with it. This is the state of moksha—pare’vyaye sarve ek?-bhavanti.

To be continued ...


========================================================================

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mundakopanishad : Chapter-2. Section-2. Mantram-9 & 10.Post - 23. Swami Krishnananda.

-
Image
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  March 10, 2021. 02:47. PM. Mundakopanishad Chapter 2: Section 2, Post - 24. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capter-II. Sectuion -2. Mantram- 9. (Self effulgent Brahmam) & Mantram-10. (All Illuminating Brahmam.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here the word ‘karma’ is used in the plural. A controversy has arisen by commentators interpreting the word ‘karma’ as plural. How many karmas are there? Plural implies more than two. In Sanskrit grammar, plural is not dual, it is more than dual. In the English language, more than one is plural. But in Sanskrit, more than one is dual, and more than dual is plural. Here karm??i is plural, which means more than two. Does it mean that more than two karmas are destroyed, or are only two karmas destroyed? There are three kinds of karma—sanchita, agami
Read more

Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1. Section-2. Mantram-10. - Swami Krishnananda

-
Image
======================================================================== ======================================================================== 28/12/2016. Mantram-s  - 8 to 10 : Description of the sad state of knowledge-less ( devoid of Upasana ) ritualists- Mantram-10. ======================================================================== Ishtapurtam manyamana varishtam nanyac chreyo vedayante pramudhaḥ, naksaya prsthe te sukrte’nubhutvemam lokam hinataram va vishanti (1.2.10). ======================================================================= 1. Many of these verses sound like the verses of the Bhagavadgita, in the Ninth Chapter, where it is said that after enjoying the glories of heaven you come back due to the exhaustion of the merits accumulated by good deeds. Ishta and purta are two types of good deeds that people do in this world. Sacrifices along the lines of the Vedic injunctions are called ishta. Other philanthropic deeds such as distributing we
Read more

Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 : 12.

-
Image
23/11/2018 Mundaka Upanishad : Chapter 1: Section 1 :  Discussion-12. (Mundakopanishad : Chapter-1 : Section-1 :Mantram-7) Thus, how many things are there? Firstly, there is the Supreme Absolute. Secondly, there is anna, or the potential for the future manifestation in the form of tapas. Thirdly, there is Hiranyagarbha, the vibratory cosmic prana. Fourthly, there is thinking, which is the cosmic thought identifiable with Virat. Fifthly, there is law and order. Sixthly, there is the manifestation of the fourteen worlds. Seventhly, there is individuality, the individuals or jivas, who are propelled towards action, karma. Eighthly, there is the fruit of action. So there are eight degrees : - 1.Brahman, 2. prana, 3.manas, 4.satya, 5.loka, 6.karma, 7.manifestation,8.amrita. Look at this wonderful mantram. It is like a sutra, one thirty-two lettered verse giving us the whole scheme of creation from Brahman to dust. Look at the power of the composer of this mantr
Read more