The Mundakoupanishad : Post-54. - Swami Krishnananda

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Monday 18, mar 2024. 06:55.

Chapter 3: Section 2.

Mantram- 7.

POST-54.

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Mantram-7.

"Gatah kalah pancadasa pratidevatha devas ca sarve prati- devatasu, 

karmani vijnanamayas ca atma pare'vyaye sarve eki- bhavanti." (3.2.7): 

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All the faculties get dissolved. There are various faculties in us. There are five senses of knowledge, five senses of action, five pranas, and there is manas, buddhi, ahankara, chitta. These are the kalas, or the faculties. They suddenly melt like snow before the heat of the Sun.

Gatah kalah pancadasa pratidevatha: Here fifteen faculties are mentioned, which are actually the five pranas, the five senses of knowledge, and the five senses of action. With the mind included, it becomes sixteen. But here fifteen are mentioned, and these fifteen kalas, or we may say sixteen kalas—all the perceptive and cognitive faculties—dissolve. Together with that dissolution, individuality itself dissolves.

Devas ca sarve prati-devatasu: All the divinities superintending over the sense organs withdraw themselves. They also get dissolved because the locations of these gods are dissolved. When one's seat is gone, one has to quit that place. So the gods who were controlling our sense organs, our faculties—Brahma was ruling the intellect, Moon was ruling the mind, Rudra was ruling the ego, Vishnu was ruling the chitta, the Sun was ruling the eye, and so on—these gods will no longer have a function to perform. They return to their original sources, and the faculties merge.

Karmani vijnanamayas ca atma pare'vyaye sarve eki- bhavanti: Even our karmas are dissolved. We need not pay a penalty for what we have done, because the fire of knowledge has burnt all actions to ashes. The fire of knowledge can reduce to ashes even a mountain of sins. And the intellect, which is the seat of the ego, also goes with it. What happens? This individual soul, with all these appurtenances mentioned, with all its properties and belongings, psychically in their nature, go and settle themselves in that Imperishable Being and get united with it. This is the state of moksha—pare'vyaye sarve ekī-bhavanti.

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Mantram-8.

"Yatha nadyas syandamanus samudre astam gacchanti nama-rupe vihaya, 

tatha vidvan nama-rupad vimuktah parat- param purunam upaiti divyam." (3.2.8):

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