The Mandukya Upanishad 2.1 : Swami Krishnananda
05/03/2019 The Mandukya Upanishad 2.1 : Swami Krishnananda The quintessential teaching of the Mandukya Upanishad of the Atharva Veda unfolded with lucidity. A profound analysis of the waking, dream and deep sleep states by the seer and sage of deep insight. Section 2 : The Individual and the Absolute 1. The first Mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad describes the nature of Omkara and its connotation in relation to the whole universe. Now, it also denotes some object, as was pointed out earlier. It is a Universal Name which refers to a Universal Form in such a manner that the Name and the Form coalesce to constitute one Being. As the Name is Universal and the Form also is Universal, they have naturally to blend into a single existence, because we cannot have two Universals standing apart from each other. There is, therefore, the Universal Name coalescing with the Universal Form; Nama and Rupa become one in this experience-whole. That experience is neither Nama nor Rupa, by itse