ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :

or  


VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD 



Mantram -1.


Discussion : 14.  "Whose  is  the  wealth?...  who  is  to  covet  and  what?" ....

Swami  Sri  Adi  Sankaracharya  goes  a  step  further  and  interprets  the  last  quarter  of  the  Mantram  to  mean,  as  an  exclamation  from  the  Rish-s : 
"Whose  is  the  wealth?"

By  this  question  he  implies   that  there  is  no  wealth  which  belongs  to  anybody  and  that  there  is  nothing  in  the  universe  which  can  permanently  remain  with  us;  we  ourselves  are  passing;  the  world  of  objects  is  also  ephemeral,  and  in  this  eternal  change,  who  is  to  covet  and  what?

Thus,  he  laughs  at  the  very  idea  of  desiring  anything  in  the  world,  since  there  is  nothing  in  the  universe  which  deserves  our  desiring.



The  very  first  mantram  of  this  inimitable  Upanishad  is  in  itself  a  miniature  philosophical  textbook,  complete  with  its  philosophical  enunciations  of  Truth,  its  explanations  of  the  technique  of  realising  that  Truth,  and  its  vivid  exposition  of  the  values  of  life  that  a  perfect  man  of  Truth  would,  thereafter,
entertain  in  his  everyday  life.

Next : Discussion-15. "Path  of  Renunciation"  or  " Knowledge"  ......

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