AITAREYA UPANISHAD - “By a Peasant for the Peasant”: 4. Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya.

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Monday 24, November 2025, 19:20.
AITAREYA UPANISHAD: “By a Peasant for the Peasant” :  
Composed by Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya
Series of 10 Lectures - by SWAMI ADVAYANANDAJI
Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course
AT SANDEEPANY SADHANALAYA, POWAI, MUMBAI
February 15th – February 23rd, 2013.
Reflections by SWAMI GURUBHAKTANANDA
PART 1: Chapter - 1:  4 mantras:  The Theory of CREATION:

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Mantram - 1.3: Hiranyagarbha, the Chief Devata:

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Sa eekshata = He (Brahman) reflected:    

ime nu lokaah; = “Here now are the worlds, (just created). 

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lokapaalaan nu srijai iti; = Let Me now create Protectors for these worlds.” 

Sah adbhya sam-uddritya eva = Then He took up a lump of the Waters

10.  

purusham amurchhayat. = and gave it a human form (Hiranyagarbha). 

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 Lokapaalaan: 

“Protectors of the worlds”. When the worlds were created, nothing was in them. There were no living beings. So, the next intention that crossed the Supreme Being was to place the Devatas or deities who would protect these worlds. These would become the Guardian Angels of the universe. 

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 Adbhyah:

 “Water” is symbolically used to represent the liquidity which held all the potential material together; it was the causal substance from which the rest of creation was made. This liquid material is a vast mass of consciousness resembling an ocean. It is full of the potential for sentiency, vitality, power, creativity, etc. Brahman took out (Sam Uddritya) a ‘handful’ of this Water of Life. A handful indicates that it is fromonly a small part of Him that creation was made. The bulk of Him remained unmanifest. This is to lead us to the knowledge that He, the Lord, is Infinite and has no ‘parts. 

Amurchhayat: 

Then He “gave it a shape” that resembled a Purusha, human form. Note that the Deities do not have a gross form. Their bodies are made of Consciousness or Light. To depict this, Deities are painted in a blue colour, representing Consciousness. 

The first Deity Form conceived represents Hiranyagarbha, which is Consciousness in association with the subtle creation. What is being described here is the creation of Hiranyagarbha Himself, the Chief Deity of the whole subtle manifestation.  

Other Deities fall under Hiranyagarbha, and their creation follows in the next mantram. The Deities are subtle beings, and it is interesting that they all have been given human forms. The gross creation has not yet begun. 



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Next
Mantram - 1.4: The Eight Chief Devatas are Created 
Continues

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

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