MUNDAKOUPANISHAD - 60. Swami Advayananda.

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Sunday 08,  September 2024, 06:10.
6 Chapters (64 Mantras)
Here begins the second Section of the Third Canto. 
6. QUALITIES SEEN IN A SAGE 
(Mantras -54-64, 11 no.) 
59 - Mantram -  6.6: Kramamukti: Attainment of Brahmaloka 
Post - 60.

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59 - Mantram -  6.6: Kramamukti: Attainment of Brahmaloka 

1 

vedaanta vijnaana = The exact import of the Upanishads 

sunishchitaarthaah = becomes well ascertained beyond all doubts. 

2 

samnyaasa-yogaad = Through practising the Yoga of Renunciation,  

yatayah shuddha-sattvaah; = the anchorites gain total purity of mind

 3 

te brahma lokeshu = Then, to the world of Brahma (Brahmaloka) do they  

para anta kaale, =  go at the time of their final death. 

4 

para amritaah, = There (in Brahmaloka) they attain immortality, 

pari-muchyanti sarve. = and become finally liberated. 

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This is another very well-known mantram. 

It is recited during the welcoming of a Sannyasin in an Ashram. Every time Pujya Guruji arrives back to the Ashram after his trips all over the world, he is welcomed with this Mantram.

 

The Procedure of Krama Mukti:

 Not everyone is successful in attaining liberation while living. Most seekers would 

reach a certain stage of growth. Those among them who still have desires to fulfil, attain 

“Krama Mukti”, i.e. they go to the heavenly regions, enjoy those desires, and then go to 

Brahmaloka (“the world of Brahma”) where they are instructed by Brahmaji Himself, and 

become liberated.

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The minimum requirement for going via this route is to have these two qualities:  

1

 i) The correct Understanding of the Upanishads is necessary. The seeker has to 

understand the final goal is Brahman, the Infinite. The not-Self has to be negated. 

2

 ii) The second requirement is to begin the practice of Renunciation seriously. 

The path to ultimate liberation has to be founded on renunciation. Sannyasa, the formal stage 

of  renunciation, is characterized by giving up all selfish activities as well as being relieved of all 

obligatory duties. This does not stop a Sannyasin from taking up any activity which he may 

deem fit for the good of humanity. He is in the category of the pure-minded, and cannot 

have any selfish interests. 

3

 If these two are clearly grasped, then the person is qualified for Krama Mukti. He 

attains Brahman eventually but takes the step-by-step route. There are many aspirants who 

reach Brahman via this route; the many heavenly worlds are all part of Brahman; Brahman 

alone is being referred to by the word ‘worlds’. 

The end of a life span has a special meaning in the case of the realized sage. To him, 

this is the “Last Death”; for he never returns to this mortal plane again, having been 

liberated from it by dissolving all his Karma. In the case of all others, death at the end of life 

cannot be called “Paranta” because it is going to be followed again and again by many more 

lives and therefore many more deaths.  

4

 The ultimate attainment is Immortality, which implies liberation from the wheel of 

births and deaths. This is the same as that of the Jivanmuktas. Brahman is Immortal.  

Pari-Muchyanti refers to the cessation of the worldly state once and for all. It is like 

the blowing out of a lamp – worldliness never returns to the realized ones. 

The Bhashya quotes other similar passages, one being: “Just as birds do not leave 

behind footprints in space, or the movements of fish in water do not leave any trace, 

so also the lives of liberated sages do not leave any footprints or traces of Karma 

in this world.” 

Another beautiful expression from another text is: “Those who want to go beyond 

the courses of the world do not tread on roads.” This is meant to indicate that Brahman is 

not a spatially determined goal, but is our very being. There is no “road” to Brahman. 

The most important deduction from these experiences is that liberation consists only 

in the removal of ignorance through knowledge of the Self, nothing else. 

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60. Mantram- 6.7: Videhamukti: Dissolution of the Body 

Continued

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