Mundakopanishad : ( 12/12/2012. )

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Tuesday, April 19, 2022. 08:50.PM. Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-5. continued ============================================================ Vyakarana is grammar.  There are two types of grammar: classical grammar and Vedic grammar. In Panini's method, both types of grammar are found. Vedic grammar is studied only in advanced stages. Students of Sanskrit usually study only classical works and the well-known Vyakarana. Unless we know the technology of the method by which words are used in the Veda mantras, we will not make any sense out of them, and so Vyakarana, the study of grammar, is necessary. Nirukta is the etymology of the word—how the word has been formed.  Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, and so on—what is actually meant by these words? They have a root. As every word in a language has a root from which it is derived, Vedic words also have a root ...

 ================================================================ =============================================================== Saturday, April 02, 2022. 19:30. Post- 5. ================================================================ Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-5.  ============================================================== "Tatrapara Rg-vedo yajur-vedah  sama-vedo'tharva-vedah siksa  kalpo vyakaranam niruktam chando jyotisam-iti,  atha para yaya tad aksaram adhigamyate." (1.1.5).  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very interesting! It gives a blow at the very root of our imagination that the Vedas are the highest knowledge. The Rigveda Samhitas, and everything connected to the Rigveda, such as the Brahmanas, and the Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda, are all lower knowledge only, my dear friend. There are four Vedas. The Rigveda consists of hymns, prayers, mantras. The Yajur...

 ============================================================== ============================================================ Monday, February 21, 2022. 19:00. Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-3 & 4. Post-4. ============================================================= Mantram-3. Śaunako ha vai mahāśālo'ṅgirasaṁ vidhivad upasannaḥ papraccha, kasmin nu bhagavo vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātam bhavati iti (1.1.3): “Great Master, holy Sage, what is that, by knowing which, one can know everything else also?” Is it possible to know something which can lead to the knowledge of all things at the same time?  Generally, such a thing is not possible. If you know one thing, you know only that thing. The knowledge of A does not involve the knowledge of B, because A cannot be B. One thing cannot be another thing; it is the law of contradiction in logic.  So what is this question? A supernatural question is raised by Saunaka Mahashala: “What is that thing, the knowledge of which will, at t...

 ============================================================ ============================================================= Monday, February 21, 2022. 19:00. Chapter-1. Section-1. Mantram-2. =============================================================== Post-3. "artharvaṇe yām pravadeta brahmātharvā tām purovācāṅgire brahma-vidyām,  sa bhāradvājāya satyavāhāya prāha bhāradvājo'ṇgirase parāvarām (1.1.2.) ========================================================== =============================================================== Brahma, the Creator, who was the first born among all evolutes in the process of the manifestation of God Almighty, the Creator of this world and the Protector of all beings, taught Brahma Vidya—the science of Brahman, which is the origin, the support and the foundation of every other learning, every other vidya or science or art—to his eldest son Atharvan, a great sage. Atharvan taught this knowledge that he received from Brahma to another sage, called An...

 ============================================================= ============================================================ Tuesday, January 25, 2022. 19:00. Santhi Mantram & Chapter-1.   Section-1. Mantram-1.. =============================================================== Peace Invocation (Santhi Mantram) : Om bhadram karnebhih srnuyama devah bhadram pasyem -aksabhir -yajatrah Sthirair-angais-tustuvagm-sastanubhih vyasema devahitam yadayuh Svasti na indro vrddha-sravah svasti nah pusa visva-vedah Svasti nastarksyo aristanamih svasti no Brhaspatir-dafhatu.  om santhih! santhih!! santhih!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : Om.  O  gods,  may we,  with  our  ears,  hear  what  is auspicious; O  ye  fit  to  be  worshipped, may  we,  with  our eyes,  see what  is  auspicious.  Ma...

 ================================================ ================================================= Friday, January 14, 2022. 19:00 1. Introduction : ================================================== Among the Upanishads, the Mundaka Upanishad is regarded as one the most important. It throws a flood of light on the Jnana Marga (the path of Knowledge) and leads the aspirant to the highest rung in the ladder of Jnana—Brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati. That this Upanishad was meant for the Sannyasin (and hence the significant name Mundaka Upanishad) is itself the highest tribute that can be paid to its sacredness. The truth that this Supreme Knowledge which the Upanishad imparts is to be had through inspirational initiation direct from a Guru who is well versed in the Brahma Vidya and who has at the same time had the Brahma Anubhava, is brought out very clearly in this Upanishad. At the very commencement, the Upanishad throws out a challenge to all finite (and therefore imperfect) sciences...

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,  Septembert 18, 2021. 3:00. PM. Mundakopanishad SANSKRIT Mantras ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3: Section 1 1. dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyā samānaṁ vṛkṣam pariṣasvajāte tayor anyaḥ pippalaṁ svādv attyanaśnann anyo’bhicākaśīti. 2. samāne vṛkṣe puruṣo nimagno’nīśayā śocati muhyamānaḥ, juṣṭam yadā paśyaty anyam īśam asya mahimānam iti, vīta-śokaḥ. 3. yadā paśyaḥ paśyate rukma-varṇaṁ kartāram īśam puruṣam brahma-yonim, tadā vidvān puṇya-pāpe vidhūya nirañjanaḥ paramaṁ sāmyam upaiti. 4. prāṇo hy eṣa yaḥ sarva-bhūtair vibhāti vijānan vidvān bhavate...