The Mundakoupanishad : Post-55. - Swami Krishnananda

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Monday 01, Apr 2024. 06:55.

Chapter 3: Section 2.

Mantram- 8, 9.

POST-55.

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Mantram-8.

"Yatha nadyas syandamanus samudre astam gacchanti nama-rupe vihaya, 

tatha vidvan nama-rupad vimuktah parat- param purunam upaiti divyam." (3.2.8):



We attain to that Supreme Eternal Purusha and merge into that Purusha, uniting ourselves with that Supreme Being. As rivers flowing in different directions commingle with the ocean and we cannot know where what river is, all the jivas who have been liberated will melt into this great Atman, the Universal Being, as rivers melt in the ocean. As nama and rupa, names and forms, are dissolved in the ocean—Ganga is no more Ganga, Yamuna is no more Yamuna, and no river is there as its name and form because it is one mass of equality and merger—so this person, that person, this thing and that thing, whatever we see in this world, casts aside name and form. It is lifted above the encasement of names and forms in that big sea, and made to identify itself only with the vast ocean of Imperishable Being. 

Tatha vidvan nama-rupad vimuktah: The knower of Brahman, having cast aside all names and forms, attains to that Supreme Being above all conceivable divinities in the cosmos. That Supreme Purusha becomes our whole—parat-param purunam upaiti divyam.

The Upanishad is over. You have attained the Supreme Brahman. What else do you want to hear now?


Mantram - 9.

"Sa yo ha vai tat paramam brahma veda brahmaiva bhavati, nasyabrahma-vit kule bhavati, 

tarati śokam tarati papmanam guha-granthibhyo vimukto'mrto bhavati (3.2.9).": 


If you know this Brahman, you shall become Brahman. Whatever you think you are, that you really are. If you know that your existence is inseparable from that Universal Brahman, you shall become That. Whoever knows Brahman becomes Brahman.

Nasyabrahma-vit kule bhavati: In case the knower of Brahman is a householder, no non-knower will be born in his family for seven generations, because of the power of the Realisation of this person. It is said that if one person in a family attains God, seven generations behind and seven generations ahead also will attain liberation by the power of this one person attaining Brahman. So parents should not cry if one son attains God. 

Tarati sokam tarati papmanam guha-granthibhyo vimukto'mrto bhavati: You cross over sorrow, cross over all sins, and break all the knots of the heart. Immortal nectar do you become.

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Next

Mantram-10.

"Tad etat rcabhyuktam: kriyavantas srotriya brahmanishas svayam juhvata ekarsim sraddhayantah, 

tesam evaitam brahma-vidyam vadeta sirovratam vidhivad yais tu cirnam (3.2.10)."

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

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