ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1.




ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD 



Mantram -1.


Discussion - 8. 'matter' ..  'ghost  vision'


When  we  are  told  of  a  paramount  'Power' presiding  over  the  world  of  'matter,'   the  teacher  advocates  that  we  must  come  to  experience  this  great  joyous  perfection  through  the  renunciation  of  our  false  values  and  attachments  which  we  have  cultivated  in  ourselves  in   the  jungles  of  our  own  perceptions.



The  'ghost-vision'  frightens  the  deluded  one,  and  his  mind  gets  into  a  serious  state  of  perplexity  and  confusion.

The  only  way  to  pacify  him  and  bring  peace  and  tranquility  to  his  mind  is  to  help  him  to  discover  the  'post.'

Now,  to  my  friend  who  is  agitated  by  the  vision  of  the  'ghost,'  I  and  his  companions,  who  are  seeing  the  'post,'  can  only  advice  'Dear  friend!  Renounce  the  form  and  qualities  of  the  'ghost,'  and  enjoy.'

Beneath  the  'ghost' is  the  'post.'

So  long  as  we  are  entirely  engaged  in  the  vision  of  the  'ghost' in  our  mental  pre-occupations,  we  have  neither  the  tranquility  nor  the  intellectual  composure  to  see  the  'post.'

Having  seen  the  'post,'  the  'ghost' can  never  be.

The  sight  of  the  post  is  itself  the  discovery  of  peace  within,  for,  the  present  mental  agitations  are  all  caused  by  the  'error  in  perception' and  the  consequent  fear.   



The  great  Master  of  the  'Upanishad,'  in  this  very  opening  Mantram,  advises   his  students  to  renounce  the  false  and  thus  come  to  enjoy  the  Real.

Next :  Discussion-9. "That  renounced"  (  tena  tyaktena  --   first  two  words  in  the  beginning  of  second  line  of  the  Mantram)   ....." envelops  all  this " ( Isa vasyam  idagm  sarvam  ---  in  the  beginning  of  the  Mantram  ...

To  be  continued  ...    


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