The Mundakoupanishad : Post-35. - Swami Krishnananda.

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Monday,  24 Jun  2023. 07:05.

Chapter-2, Section-2.

Mantram-7 : { Description of Lower Brahmam and mode 0f contemplating upon it }

POST-35.

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Mantram - 7 :

"Yah sarvajnah sarvavid yasyaisa mahima bhuvi,

divye brahma-pure hyesa vyomny-atma pratisthitah.

mano-mayah prana-sarira-neta

pratishito-'nne hrdayam sannidhaya,

tad vijnanena pari-pasyanti dhira

ananda-rupam-amrtam yad vibhati."

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Translation 

"He is "all-wise and "all-knowing" and His, is verily, this glory manifest in the world.

In the sky of heart,-the luminous city of BRAHMAM-He is established, clothed in mind and guiding life and body.

With His seat in the heart, He lives in the whole body of man.

In the perfect knowledge of Him, the wise realize the state of the blissful immortality."  

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Commetary

Yah sarvajnah sarva-vid yasyaisa mahima bhuvi divye brahma-pure hy esa vyomny atma pratishitah (2.2.7): 

It is all knowing, and aware of all things in detail. These words occurred earlier also. Sarvajñaḥ has been interpreted as the knower of everything in generality; sarva-vid is one who knows everything in detail. So this Supreme Being, which is cosmically aware of everything in general as well as in detail, has its glory sung in this world in the form of this creation. Yasyaiṣa mahimā bhuvi: This Earth, this glory that you see in this world, this very universe is the encomium, the praise of God. The whole universe is praising God in all its forms, in all its shapes, through all its historical processes and every shape that it takes through evolution. The world as a whole is a total prayer that is offered to God by His own creation. Sometimes it is said that God created the world so that the world may pray to Him—yasyaisa mahima bhuvi.

Divye brahma-pure hy esa vyomny atm pratisthitah: 

In the highest heaven, whose representation is within our own hearts as the subtle spiritual lotus—the city of Brahman, as it is called—in this firmament of the spirit, in the lotus of the heart, the highest reality is planted. The forms of the mind, the prana and the physical body, all forms are its manifestations.

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Next Mantram-8.

To be continued  

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know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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