Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

31/10/2017 MANDUKYA UPANISHAD Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-3 ***************************** Jagarita-sthano bahih prajnah saptanga ekona-vimsati-mukhah sthula-bhuk vaisvanarah prathamah padah. ***************************** word by meaning : Jagarita-sthano : one whose field is waking state; bahih prajnah : who is conscious of the external; sapta angah : has seven limbs; ekona vimsati mukhah : has nineteen mouths; sthula-bhuk : experiencer of gross objects; vaisvanarah : (is) vaisvanara; prathamah : first; padah : quarter. ******************************************** The sum of Mantram : The first quarter (pada) is Vaisvanara whose sphere of activity is the waking state, who is conscious of the external world of objects, who has seven limbs and ninteen mouths, and who enjoys the gross objects of the world. ************************************************************************************ Disc...

25/10/2017 MANDUKYA UPANISHAD Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-3 ***************************** Jagarita-sthano bahih prajnah saptanga ekona-vimsati-mukhah sthula-bhuk vaisvanarah prathamah padah. ***************************** Jagarita-sthano : one whose field is waking state; bahih prajnah : who is conscious of the external; sapta angah : has seven limbs; ekona vimsati mukhah : has nineteen mouths; sthula-bhuk : experiencer of gross objects; vaisvanarah : (is) vaisvanara; prathamah : first; padah ; quarter. ******************************************** * The first quarter (pada) is Vaisvanara whose sphere of activity is the waking state, who is conscious of the external world of objects, who has seven limbs and ninteen mouths, and who enjoys the gross objects of the world. The word "mouth,"  used here is, in its amplest significance, as an instrument of conumption. In this sense we ca...