ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : Mantram : 15.

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Mantram-15.


Discussion-3. "Swami Sri  Adi  Sankaracharya' says : " ......


Thus,  as  Swami  Sri  Adi  Sankaracharya  says,  "It  is  certainly  the  last  prayer  of  theb  dying  individual  but  the  individual  meant  here  is  the  ego-centre."

We  are  not  to  understand  that  it  is  literally  prayer  of  the  dying  old  man  on  his  death-bed.

It  is  the  last  prayer  of  the  active  seeker  in  his  meditation-seat  when  he,  in  his  divine  effort,  is  shaking  off  his  last  venture  of  ego  which  is  lingering  to  veil  the  Self  in  him.




The  mind-and-intellect-conditioned  Awareness  ( ego),  when  it  tries  to  understand  and  grapple  with  the  Pure  Awareness  behind  it,  gets  itself  blinded  by  the  glory  and  brilliance,  and  so  it  declares  to  the  Pure  intelligence  to  unveil  itself  for  its  cognition.


When  the  mind  and  intellect  view  out,  they  can  recognise  only  the  world  of  'matter' constituted  of  the  names  and  forms.


Pre-occupied  with  these,  it  becomes  impossible  for  the  ego-centre  to  recognise  the  Truth  beneath  it.


Thus,  the  world - of - 'matter'   becomes  a  golden  lid,  brilliant  and  shining,  which  veils  the  Truth  behind  it.


At  the  doors  of  Truth,  as  it  were,  now  the  seeker  is  knocking  and  demanding  the  "Nourisher
( Pusan / Sun )  behind  to  open  the  door-of-matter  and  reveal  itself  in  all  its  spiritual  glory.

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