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The Mandukya Upanishad 3.3 : Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 29/02/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #This is the cosmic description of the Virat-Purusha, and the Virat is a name that we give to Consciousness as animating the physical universe. #Just as we have consciousness animating our physical body, there is a Consciousness animating the physical universe. This vast cosmos; with all its stellar and planetary systems, with all its milky ways, with all its space-time and causal laws, is the physical cosmos, and this is animated by a Consciousness, just as our bodies are animated. This animating Consciousness is the Antaryamin, so called because of His being immanent in all things, hidden behind all things,

The Mandukya Upanishad 3.2 : Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13/02/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-2 Post-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #The Mandukya Upanishad envisages the Atman in this waking life, not merely from the point of view of the microcosm, but also from the standpoint of the macrocosm.  Therefore, it is not merely an analysis of the self; it is also a synthesis of the subjective and the objective. From the point of view of the Upanishad, at least, there is no unbridgeable gulf between the individual and the cosmic, Jiva and Isvara, the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, Pindanda and Brahmanda.  So, in the study of the waking life, the Mandukya Upanishad brings about a harmony between ourselves and the world, Ji