Mundakopanishad : Santi Mantram ( Peace Invocation ) -4.

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Mundaka-Upanishad :


Santi Mantram :


Discussion-1.


No  Upanishadic-study  ever  started  without  the  Guru  and  the  Disciple  chanting  together  the  peace-onvocation.

Everyday  the  teacher  and  the  student  sat  together  and  started  their  discourses  only  afterb  a  common  prayer.

In  these  days  of  acute  scepticism,  the  educated-illitrates  would  wonder  what  would  be  the  power  and  strength,  necessity  and  function  of  prayer  in  life.

"Forgive  them  Lord,  they  know  not  what  they  say."



Sri Gopala Iyer  is  a  poor  insignificant  member  of  a  bid  family,  and  in  his  own  house,  is  a  victim  of  the  mischiefs  of  even  his  youngest  son.

Sri ayer  earns  his  livelihood  on  a  paltry  pay  which  he  gets  as  a  police  constable  in  the  local  Thana ( police-station ).

Thus,  he  has,  in  fact,  more  than  one  personality  in  him  ---  the  father,  the  unhappy  husband  and  the  mighty  policeman.




Now ,  when  exactly  does  the  eneffectual  Gopala  Iyer  becomes  the  mighty  'hand  of  law' as  a  policeman,  a  dread  to  the  mischief-makers,  a  phantom  for  our  cyclists  and  ever-present  ghost  for  every  rash  drivers?

Certainly,  the  policeman  in  him  is  not  when  he  is  in  'dhoti  and  shirt,'  rolling  in  the  veranda  of  his  house,  persecuted  by  the  mischiefs  of  his  son  or  bullied  by  the  claims  of  his  wife.

The  moment  Sri  Gopala  Iyer  gets  his  'Kakki'shorts  and  put  on  his  hat,  out  of  that  very  same  personality,  the  policeman  rises  up  and  thereafter,  he  is  a  potent  power  to  be  reckoned  with  by  every  citizen!


Similarly,  my  members,  each  one  of  us  is  not  merely  an  ineffectual,  fearful,  ever-sighing  limited  creature;  but  has  within  himself  a  personality  supremely  omni[potent,  fearless,  unlimited  all-blissful  and  Godly.

To be continued ...

Next : Discussion-2. similarity with Sri Iyer  ......      


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