UPANISHAD MANDUKYA : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins : Karika Mantram-s 1 to 9. Mantram-5 : Discussion-2.

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Mandukya Upanishad :

Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise )

Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins :

Karika Slokam-s 1 to 9.

Mantram : 5.

"Trishu dhamashu yad-bhojyam
bhokta yas-ca prakirtitah
vedai-tad-ubhayam yashtu sa
bhunjano na lipyate."

trishu dhamashu - in the three planes of consciousness;
yat bhojyam - that (which is) to be enjoyed;
bhokta - the enjoyer;
ca - and;
yah prakirtitah - that who is known;
veda - knows;
ubhayam etat - both of them;
yah - who;
tu - indeed;
sah - that (person);
bhunjanah - while enjoying;
na - not;
lipyate - affected.

" One who knows both the experiencer and the experienced, just as they have been described so far, as associating with the three states of consciousness, he is not at all affected even when he is experiencing (enjoying) the respective objects of the three states."

Discussion-2.

To point out the Infinite with finite examples is, indeed, a futile effort and sure to be disappointing. And yet, if we are to give an example of such a state of mind, wherein, though experiencing, we are not involvedin the experiences, we will have to consider a state of dream wherein 'we are fully aware of our waker - ego' Supposing that I can go to dream and live the experiences of the dream without myself forgetting my waking state personality, then, whatever be the experiences of the dream, they cannot touch me. I may be dreaming that I am being made a king; it shall not bring to me even a single smile of joy! I may again, experience that a dream-lion is hunting me! But even even if it were to jump at me, I shall not move even an inch, because I am fully aware that the lion is nothing but a mental creation of myself!

Another solid example would be a cinema that we are watching in a theatre. We may go on watching untouched, whether the story be a tragedy or a comedy. Even if the picture is revealing cold murder, we shall not feel as sentimental and shocked by it as we would feel, if, on the roadside, we, in the waking-state, were actually to witness a murder scene. It is because in the theatre we are fully aware that what the picture reveals is for our own entertainment that we are not actually involved in the murder scene. On the other hand, your child, sitting next to you, may forget its own personal identity and, identifying itself with the sorrows, may live through the lurid agony of real murder scene.

Thus, the great Masters of old have declared that after Self-realisation. when we have understood and experienced the vital centre in our own Self, even if we go back to play the game of life in the three-folds of Consciousness, the waking, the dream and the dee-sleep, we may go enjoying the experiences good and bad, but in none of them the individual will get himself involved.

To Be Continued....