KATHOUPANISHAD - 70. Swami Advayananda.
Tuesday 26, November 2024, 06:15.
KATHA UPANISHAD
Part 2 – Total 49 Mantras
Chapters 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3
Chapter 2.1: (15 Mantras)
INTELLECT – INDIVIDUAL INTELLIGENCE
Mantram-2.1.4: Witness of the Three States
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Mantram-2.1.4: Witness of the Three States:
1 Svapna antam jaagarita aantam = The objects of dream and those of waking state,
2 cha ubhau yena anu-pashyati; = are both perceived by That
3 mahaantam vibhum aatmaanam = great, omnipresent Aatman or Self .
4 matvaa dheerah na shochati. = Having realized this; the wise man grieves not.
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The Bhashya Link explains that the subtlety of the Self is explained from different standpoints in these three mantras, in answer to Nachiketas’s third boon.
1-2 This mantram presents the Self as the Witness of the three states of waking, dream and deep sleep. The deep sleep state is not mentioned as no objects are perceived in it. The perceiver is indicated as being the Self.
3-4 The wise man, who realizes that he himself is none other than the all-pervading Self, loses all fear by virtue of this fact of omnipresence. Since there is nothing to fear, there
is nothing to grieve over. This is one of the effects of being in the Non-dual state.
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Mantram -2.1.5: Keeper of Karmic Accounts
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