MANDUKYA UPANISHAD : Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-3, Discussion-10.

27/11/2017

MANDUKYA UPANISHAD

Chapter-1.

"AGAMA PRAKARANA"
( The Scriptural Treatise )

Mantram-3

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Jagarita-sthano bahih prajnah saptanga

ekona-vimsati-mukhah sthula-bhuk

vaisvanarah prathamah padah.

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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.

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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.

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Discussion :- 10.

1.

Thus, the one - word description of the cosmic man, the Total Vaisvanara - the Universal Ego, is given in Mandukya Upanishad on the basis of the elaborate description of it in Chandogya Upanishad.

The cosmic form of Vaisvanara is called Virat; and you all must be familiar with the description of the Lord's Cosmic Formas decibed in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

The description of an entity constituting in itself the entire gross - forms is in perfect unison with the Spiritual Truth already described in the previous Mantram in the Major-text,

" This Atma is Brahmam."
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2.

If the room-space is actually nothing other than the total-atmospheric-space, the room-space as space can be described as the atmosphere which has no boundaries and in which the entire globe is revolving but at one of its limbs, since we all know that the entire universe is moving in space.

It is in this sense that we are told in very beginning that a pure intellect, good at figures and data, however, scientific and logical it may be, is not the correct instrument to feel, understand and live the "TATTVAM"  ( the essence ) of the SPIRITUAL REALITY discussed in the UPANISHAD-S.

THE END.

THE NEXT MANTRAM  INTRODUCES US TO THE DREAMER.

To be continued ...