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The Mundakoupanishad : Post-21. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Thursday, January 19, 2023. 07:00. Chapter 2: Section 1 :  Mantram-3 : Braman -The Supreme cause of all. POST-21. ========================================================================= Mantram-3 : Braman -The Supreme cause of all. "Etasmaj - jayate prano manah sarvendriyani ca kham vayur - apah prthivi visvasya dharini." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : "From Him are born Prana (life), the mind, all the organs, the sky (Akasam), the wind (Vayu), the fire (Jyotih ), the water (Apah) and the earth (Prthivi) which supports all." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments : From this great Purusha, everything comes. The Cosmic Prana, Hiranyagarbha, emanates from this Supreme Brahman. The Virat, which is ca...

The Mundakoupanishad : Post-20. Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================== Wednesday, January 04, 2023. 07:30. Chapter 2: Section 1 :  Mantram-2.( The Absolute nature of Brahman) POST-20. ========================================================================= Mantram-2. "Divyo hy amūrtaḥ puruṣah sa bāhyābhyantaro hy ajaḥ  aprāṇo hy amanāḥ śubhro akṣarāt parataḥ paraḥ (2.1.2)". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was said that from that Imperishable Being, everything proceeds; the world is created by That. That Supreme Imperishable is the divine, formless Purusha. Here, Purusha is to be understood in the sense of essential Consciousness. The origin of all things is Consciousness. It presupposes all thoughts, all actions, and all types of awareness of objects. Even to think, there must be consciousness behind the thought. Even when we assert or deny a thing, consciousness is behind the ac...