ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - 7. Swami Tejomayananda.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022. 21:00

Wave 2: MEDITATIONS on the Self

Mantram 7: Freedom From Delusion & Sorrow

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Mantram 7: Freedom From Delusion & Sorrow

"Yasmin sarvani bhutani, atma eva abhut vi-janatah;

tatra kah mohah kah shokah, ekatvam anu-pashyatah."

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Translation :

1 Yasmin sarvani bhutaani,          = When all beings and forms

2 atma eva abhut vi-janatah;        = have become one in his own Self – knowing thus,

3 tatra kah mohah kah shokah,    = how can he feel delusion and grief thereafter,

4 ekatvam anu-pashyatah.           = who sees oneness (non-duality) alone everywhere?

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Commentary :

The previous verse and this one give the fruit or result of the meditation that has

been taught in verse 1, 4 and 5.

1-2 The experience of oneness with all beings comes as a result of the precious

knowledge of discovering one’s Self. It has been described in the previous verse.

3 Kah Mohah: We have seen that experience frees us from hate. It also frees us from

delusion once and for all. Delusion was responsible for the feeling of separation in the first

place; now the reverse occurs as oneness frees us from that delusion.

Kah Shokah: At the same moment, grief and sorrow also end. The delusion had

caused us to live our life incorrectly. The incorrect living caused us to experience much pain

and sorrow. With the destruction of delusion, that sorrow also falls away from our life.

4 Ekatvam: “Oneness”. The following logical results follow this experience:

i) The person does not see objects as ‘mine’ or ‘his’ or ‘not mine’.

ii) There is no more love and hate for objects, no more likes and dislikes.

iii) One transcends all pleasure and pain, having become firmly fixed in Oneness.

iv) There is no triad of experiencer, experiencing and experienced.

v) There is no more any duality of subject and object. The waves and ocean are both

seen as water alone. The blazing sparks are not different from the fire producing them.

Two Examples:

1.Guruji was reminded of a simple illustration to show oneness. On a train journey, a

man was sleeping on the upper berth and a lady was knitting on the lower berth.

Unknowingly, she had connected a thread from the jersey of the man sleeping above and

was busy knitting away. As her jersey grew in size, the man’s jersey was disappearing!

Nature is like that, too – what gets destroyed in one place gets rebuilt in another.

2.The second example is of a little girl in the kitchen making rotis. She made them in all

shapes and sizes, each one looking like a map of some country. The mother was not satisfied

with the effort. She took the whole lot and lumped it all together to restart the whole

process. Creation, too, is a series of such events of building, breaking down and re-building.

Guruji stressed that the present subject, union with the Self, is all about us. We

should never forget that we are talking about our real Being. Then we will not view all these

as strange experiences that occur only to others; we can and should experience them for

ourselves.

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Next - Mantram - 8: How the Lord Governs

To be continued.....

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