KAIVALYA UPANISHAD : 19. Swami Advaitananda.

 

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From the Atharva Veda (26 Mantras) : “The HOMOGENEITY of Brahman”

5. OUR SPIRITUAL ROOTS :

Mantras : 15-19, 5 no.

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Thursday, January 12, 2023. 07:30. 

Mantram - 19: Brahman is Non-Dual

Post -19.

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Mantram -19.(With Translation) :

Brahman is Non-Dual :

27 mayi eva sakalam jaatam, = In Me alone is everything born;

28 mayi sarvam pratishthitam; = in Me alone does everything exist;

29 mayi sarvam layam yaati, = and in Me alone everything gets dissolved.

30 tad brahma advayam asmi aham. = I am that non-Dual Brahman.

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Bhashyam (Vyakyanam) :

27-30 The answer is that Brahman is Non-Dual. The missing piece is Non-Duality. It 

means that nothing else exists other than Brahman. If anything else does seem to exist in 

our sight, then it has to be just an appearance, an unreality! This means that everything, 

exactly as described here – birth, existence and death – is all taking place IN Brahman!

[Note for Samskrit students: The word for Brahman used here is ‘Mayi’, which is the 

Saptami Vibhakti case, meaning “in Me”. To make the point more emphatic, it is used thrice

in the mantram.]

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The Principle of Non-Duality:

All our phenomenal experience is of Plurality. How do we comprehend Non-Duality?

It would be a breakthrough in our way of thinking if we could grasp the full 

implications of Non-dual existence! It really means that we are living in an unreal world, 

having unreal experiences of unreal objects and feeling joys and sorrows that are all unreal. 

That is an amazing viewpoint to handle all of a sudden! Yet it is the Non-dual viewpoint.

It needs to filter in slowly through intense practice of Sadhana before we can 

understand its full implications. Non-duality is the single factor that separates the Vedantic 

viewpoint from all other viewpoints in philosophy, in India as well as in the world. To grasp 

this point requires us to develop our minds to a fine subtlety.

Taking it at face value and intellectually only for the moment, this fact of Brahman 

being Non-dual, means that someone who lives in that non-dual consciousness does not 

experience the triad at all. All three parts of the triad merge into one’s Consciousness as 

one. It begins to sound like Brahman the subject experiences Brahman the object through 

Brahman the Consciousness that links the two. 

Then, of course, it fits into place that our inner Self, the real “I”, would also be that 

same Brahmic Consciousness. Thus the puzzling statement of (16) begins to seem more 

plausible, nay, it actually stares us in our face: “That alone thou art; thou alone art That”!

This statement expresses the principle of Non-Duality of the Supreme Truth. NonDuality is also called the Kaivalya state from which this Upanishad derives its name. It is such an important part of Vedanta that the next 5 verses are devoted to grasping it.

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Next
6. THE EXPERIENCE OF IDENTITY
(Mantras : 20-24, 5 no.)
“Advaita Anubhava Prakasha”
To be continued

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