MUNDAKA UPANISHAD - 43. Swami Advayananda.

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Thursday, 18 Jan 2024. 06:45.

6 Chapters (64 Mantras)

4. PENETRATING BRAHMAN

(Mantras - 33-43, 11 no.)

dviteeya mundake dviteeyah khandah –

Here begins the second Section of the second Canto.

Post - 43.

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43 Mantram - 4.11: World is Indeed Brahman

1 

brahma eva idam amritam,  =  Verily, all this is the Immortal Brahman. 

2 

purastaad brahma,   =  In front is Brahman, 

paschaad brahma,  =   at the back is Brahman, 

dakshinatah cha uttarena;  =  to the right  is Brahman, and to the left

 3 

adhah cha, urdhvam cha,  =  below  is Brahman, and aboveis Brahman; is Brahman, too – 

prasritam,  = everywhere is Brahman; 

4 

brahma eva idam vishvam,  =  Brahman alone is this whole world,

idam varishtham.  =  (He alone) is the Supreme worthy of reverence ! 

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The Link gives the purpose of this final verse of the Chapter to be purely a summing 

up of the main theme so far in the book – that He is everywhere and everything that we see. 

With this, the teaching of the Mundaka Upanishad has concluded. The two Chapters to 

follow deal with several accessories to Self-realisation, and do not add any further to the 

basic Yoga teaching of the Upanishad. 

The first line and last line start with the same words. With great emphasis is it 

repeated that “Brahman alone is” this whole world; that He is Immortality. And He, 

therefore, is the most worthy to be worshipped (Varishtham). 

The great message of the Mundaka Upanishad is that there is no such thing as non

Brahman. All ideas of anything other than Brahman are ignorance-based, like the idea of the 

snake superimposed on the rope. There never was a snake on the rope! Pujya Gurudev says, 

“The pot comes from mud, stays in mud, and goes back to mud when broken.” 

Brahman alone is the supreme Truth. This is the final declaration not only of this 

Upanishad, but of the entire Vedas.

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iti mundakopanishadi dviteeya mundake dviteeya khandah. 

Thus in the Mundaka Upanishad, ends the second Section of the Second Canto. 

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Next

triteeya mundake, prathamah khandah – 

Here begins the first Section of the Third Canto.

5. THE “TWO BIRDS” METAPHOR 

(Mantras - 44-53,  10 no.) 

To be continued

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