Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, May 31, 2022. 19:00 Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-8. ====================================================================== Mantram-8. Tapasa ciyate brahma tato'nnam abhijāyate,  Annat prano manah satyam lokah karmasu camrtam (1.1.8).  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In one mantram, the whole of creation is described. Brahman, the Supreme Absolute, distends, swells—becomes large, as it were—by tapas. Tapas means concentration. Brahman's concentration is the will to create. It becomes extended in the form of the contemplated shape of creation, as it were. When we think something, the mind takes the form of that thing which we think. Now, the Supreme Absolute thinks, wills, concentrates itself on the shape which creation has to take, a...

 ============================================================ ============================================================== Wednesday, May 11, 2022. 21:57. Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-6 & 7. ============================================================ Atha parā yayā tad akṣaram adhigamyate: That is the higher knowledge with which alone can we reach the imperishable Reality. Learning is different from wisdom; scholarship is not the same as insight. One may be a learned Vedic scholar and very proficient in the performance of sacrifices and the invocation of gods in the heavens, but eternity is different from temporality. All these glories of the Veda are in the region of time, and the Eternal is timeless. What is that timeless thing, that which is called Imperishable? Yat tad adreśyam, agrāhyam, agotram, avarṇam, acakṣuḥ- śrotraṁ tad apāṇi-padām, nityam vibhuṁ sarva-gataṁ susūkṣmaṁ tad avyayam yad bhūta-yonim paripaśyanti dhīrāḥ (1.1.6):  That great Reality is to be enco...