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.

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Mantram-3 : Braman -The Supreme cause of all.

"Etasmaj - jayate prano manah sarvendriyani ca

kham vayur - apah prthivi visvasya dharini."

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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."

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Comments :

From this great Purusha, everything comes. The Cosmic Prana, Hiranyagarbha, emanates from this Supreme Brahman. The Virat, which is called here the manas, also emanates from that Brahman. All the indriyas, or the sense organs, also emanate from That. They are actually the feeders, the tentacles of Consciousness. Khaṁ vāyur jyotir āpaḥ pṛthivī viśvasya dhāriṇī: The five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—the very Earth that sustains us, the basis of all, emanate from That. The whole Brahmanda, the fourteen worlds, seven above and seven below, which are the permutations and combinations, modifications of gross forms or subtle forms, or the real forms of the five elements, all these come from one breath, as it were, of this one Supreme Being.



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