ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -3.
ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :
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VAJASANEYI SAMHITA UPANISHAD
Mantram-3.
Discussion-2. 'having been born as man. an individual or society or community or nation who refuses to live either way '.....
Now a doubt arises as to what would be the destiny of those who are not following either the 'Path of Meditation' or the 'Path of Action? '
What would happen to them and their pilgrimage, is explained in this particular mantram.
The Upanishad Master declare that, having been born as man, an individual ( or society or community or nation ) who refuses to live either the 'life of meditation' or 'the life of intense and continuous activity,' is to be considered as a suicide.
Such a nation must necessarily come to fall into an abyss of darkness and despair.
The individual ( or the community ) should thereafter, certainly, come to experience a terrible fall in its cultural and spiritual eminence.
The fall into decay and death is hinted at here by the beautiful term 'the sun-less worlds'
To consider that 'sunless worlds' is an old and ancient expression, empty and hollow, is to fail to understand its entire import and significance.
Though the language of the Rishi-s is an old one, almost dead now, it expresses the immortal ideas and, as such, those are ever new to all students of life and literacy beauty.
The 'sun-less world' need not necessarily confuse us with its own connotational implications; but don't we, in our modern times, characterise certain periods of decadence and cultural decay as dark ages?
Next : Discussion -3. 'If a generation refuses to live the higher values ......?
To be continued ...
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