Mundakopanishad : Santi Mantram ( Peace Invocation ) -4.
Mundaka-Upanishad :
Santi Mantram :
Discussion-1.
No Upanishadic-study ever started without the Guru and the Disciple chanting together the peace-onvocation.
Everyday the teacher and the student sat together and started their discourses only afterb a common prayer.
In these days of acute scepticism, the educated-illitrates would wonder what would be the power and strength, necessity and function of prayer in life.
"Forgive them Lord, they know not what they say."
Sri Gopala Iyer is a poor insignificant member of a bid family, and in his own house, is a victim of the mischiefs of even his youngest son.
Sri ayer earns his livelihood on a paltry pay which he gets as a police constable in the local Thana ( police-station ).
Thus, he has, in fact, more than one personality in him --- the father, the unhappy husband and the mighty policeman.
Now , when exactly does the eneffectual Gopala Iyer becomes the mighty 'hand of law' as a policeman, a dread to the mischief-makers, a phantom for our cyclists and ever-present ghost for every rash drivers?
Certainly, the policeman in him is not when he is in 'dhoti and shirt,' rolling in the veranda of his house, persecuted by the mischiefs of his son or bullied by the claims of his wife.
The moment Sri Gopala Iyer gets his 'Kakki'shorts and put on his hat, out of that very same personality, the policeman rises up and thereafter, he is a potent power to be reckoned with by every citizen!
Similarly, my members, each one of us is not merely an ineffectual, fearful, ever-sighing limited creature; but has within himself a personality supremely omni[potent, fearless, unlimited all-blissful and Godly.
To be continued ...
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