MANDUKYA UPANISHAD : Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-1, Discussion-4.

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MANDUKYA UPANISHAD

Chapter-1.

"AGAMA PRAKARANA"
( The Scriptural Treatise )

Mantram-1

"Harih  Aum,  Aum,-ityetad-aksharam-idam  sarvam

tasyopa-vyakhyanam  bhutam  bhavad-bhavisyad  iti

sarvam-onkara  eva,  yac-canyat-trikalatitam

tad-apy-onkara  eva."


Harih  Aum  =  symbol  of  para Brahmam;

Aum  iti  =  Omkara  ( iti )  thus;

etat  aksharam  =  this  syllable;

idam  sarvam  =  ( is )  all  this;

tasya  =  of  that  ( Omkara );

upa-vyakhyanam  =  a  clear  exposition;

bhutam  =  the  past;

bhavat  =  the  present;

bhavishyat  =  ( and )  the  future;

iti  =  thus  ( belonging  to );

sarvam  =  all  this;

Omkara  eva  =  ( is )  Omkara  only;

yat  =  that  which  is;

ca  =  and;

anyat  =  anything  else;

trikala  atitam  =  beyond  ( the  three  periods  of )  time;

tat  =  that;

api  =  also;

Omkarah  =  ( is )  Omkara;

eva  =  only.


"Harih  Aum, Aum,  the  word,  is  all  this.  A  clear  explanation  of  it  is  ( the  following )" : -

"All  that  is  past,  present,  and  future,  verily  is  Aum.  That  which  is  beyond  the  three  periods  of  time  is  also,  indeed,  Aum."

Discussion-4.

Thus a typical student almost always reached the Master's  feet having  lived  full and well, intelligently and sincerely, with a heart that is soaked with the appetite to live vitally and fully.

He comes to ask the Master to the effect  : - 


1. "Is there not, Oh! Master, a greater mission in life than eating and drinking, growing and dying, earning and spending, planning and willing, hoping and losing?


2. Is life only a continuous story of disappointments?


3. Is it a pilgrimage from the womb to tomb, jogging along the ruts of sorrow and smiles?


4. Is there no liberation possible out of the soul-killing sense of finitude and from the burning cauldron of  death and destruction?


5. Is there a greater world of ampler possibilities ... a nobler field of unbroken peace and joy  ...  an enduring living through nobler achievements"? 


It is such a disciple that the Master, in the maturity of the mutual understanding gained in a few years,

on one afternoon, calls to his side and starts expounding the great Upanishad.

To be continued  ....


       
know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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