UPANISHAD MANDUKYA: Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-6, Discussion-4.

12/03/2018
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MANDUKYA UPANISHAD
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Chapter-1.
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AGAMA PRAKARANA"
( The Scriptural Treatise )
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Mantram-6.
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Esa Sarvesvara esa sarvajna eso-'ntaryamy-esa
yonith sarvasya prabha-vapyayau hi bhutanam.
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word by meaning : -
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esah - this one;
sarvesvarah - is the ruler of all;
easah sarvahnah - this ( is ) Omniscient;
esah antaryami - this ( is ) all Knower;
easah yonih - this ( is ) the Source;
sarvasya - of all;
prabhava apyayau - origin and dissolution;
hi - verily;
bhutanam - of all beings.
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The sum of Mantram : -
"This is the Lord of all, this is the Knower of all, this is the inner Controller, this is the Source of all.
And, this is that from which all things originate and in which they finally dissolve themselves."
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Discussion-4.
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When this Conscious Principle is projected out through the mind and intellect and through the sense-organs, then it expresses itself in the awareness of the world-of-objects and the world of ideas and thoughts.
Remove this Principle of Awareness or Consciousness from a particular body; that body will no more illuminate for itself the ideas of this outside world.
Thus, we can say, not only in the scriptural language, but as a scientific truth, that the world outside and world within, rise up from this Pure Awareness or Consciousness ----  exist in this Consciousness ---  and shall, when the Consciousness is withdrawn, merge back into the Consciousness itself.

When a pencil of sunlight is made through prism, we find it emerging out dispersing into the colours of the ray; the seven colours of light has penetrated the prism.
They existed in that light and they shall all merge back again into the light.
This dispersal of the one pencil into the seven colours was only due to the mischief of the prism which obstructed and transformed the real direction of the light.

Similarly, when the Consciousness in us is projected forth, through the prism of the mind and intellect, we seem to acquire a knowledge of the plurality in the world.
This is the theory of Vedantham.
If, by a process of a spiritual technique, we can transcend the equipment of the mind and the intellect, the awareness projected forth from us shall merge with the Consciousness that is ever-present, around and about us; and we shall come to realise the All-pervading Reality in the names and forms.
This idea is very significantly hinted in this mantram.
Discussion on Mantram-6. Ends.
Next : Fom here Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins :
To be continued ....