ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : Mantram-1.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD 



Mantram -1.


Om isavasyam-idagm    sarvam   yat-kinca   jagatyam   jagat,


tena   tyaktena   bhunjitha   ma   grdhah   kasya   svid   dhanam.



isavasyam   =   indwelling  or  clothing  of  the  Lord;

vas  =  to   dwell;

vasa   =   to  clothe ;

idam   =   this;

sarvam   =   all;

yat   kim   ca   =   whatever;

jagatyam   =   in   the   universe;

jagat   =   moving   world;

tena   =   by  Him;

tyaktena   =   by   abandonment,  by  that  which  is  left;

bhunjithah   =   ( you )   may  enjoy;

ma   =   do   not;

grdhah   =   covet;

kasya   svit   =   whose,  anybody's;

dhanam   =   wealth.


" All  this,  whatever  moves  in  this  universe,  including  the  universe,  itself  moving,  is  indwelt  or  pervaded  or  enveloped  or  clothed  by  the  Lord.  That  renounced,  thou  shouldst  enjoy.  Covet 
not  anybody's  wealth."


Discussion-1. The seer of Supreme experience, living the Transcendental  Truth,  has  opened  this Upanishad  with  this  daring  statement  of  the  Sublimest  Truth.

'Vasyam' is a pregnant  word  in  'Samskratam' with  unlimited  suggestiveness  and  innumerable  meanings.

The  root  'vas' meant  'clothing', 'inhabiting',  'enveloping', or 'pervading'.

And  here  in  the  context,  all  these  meanings  are  applicable.

The  great  Rishi  exclaims  that  'all  this' ( idagm*  sarvam )  that  we  are  perceiving  through  our  sense-organs  or  by  the  intervention  of  our  mind  and  intellect ---  all  this ---  is  indwelt  by  the  Spirit  which  is  the  'Lord' of  the  world-of-perception.

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