The Mundakoupanishad : Post-37. - Swami Krishnananda.

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Saturday, 19 Aug 2023. 06:10.

Chapter-2, Section-2.

Mantram-9: {Self-effulgent Brahmam }

POST-37.

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Mantram-9.

"Hiranmaye pare kose virajam brahmah niskalam,

tac-chubhram jyotisam jyotih-tad yadatma-vido-viduh."

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hiranmaye = golden;

pare = the highest, innermost sheath;

kose = sheath;

virajam = stainless;

brahmah= Brahmam;

niskalam = indivisible;

tat = that;

subram = pure;

jyotisam = of all lights;

jyotih = light;

tat = that;

yat = which;

atma-vidah = knowers of the Atman;

viduh = know.

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Translation

"The stainless, indivisible Brahmam, the pure, the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue-thr highest. That is what the knoers of the Atma know."

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Commentary: Swami Krishnananda

Light of lights is this Brahman. The Sun and the Moon do not shine there. Within the golden sheath of the intellect of the human being, this Pure Consciousness scintillates like a spark which is without smoke and without any kind of limitation or location, the purest of purities, the Light of lights. That is beheld by those people who have known the Atman as identical with the light that they behold in other bodies also. The whole world will look like a mass of radiance to the jivanmukta purusha. If we gaze at the Sun for some time, we will see dark spots as if the Sun is everywhere, because of the effect produced by the force of its light on the eye. Likewise is the jivanmukta purusha's perception of the Atman. It does not mean that he sees the Atman only within himself, and he sees people moving about outside. It is not like that. He sees himself present and moving in all bodies. It is a cosmic experience, incapable of articulation in ordinary words of language, and the less said about it the better.

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To be continued

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