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The Mandukya Upanishad 3.8 : Swami Krishnananda

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=========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. The Nama and the Rupa of the Vedanta philosophy, or of the Upanishads, are not the names and the forms with which we are usually familiar in our social life, but they rather correspond to what  Rishi called in his system, form and matter. Form, according to Rishi, is the formative power of an object, and matter is the shape this power takes by materialisation, concretisation, etc. The subtle body may be regarded as the Nama, and the physical body the Rupa. It is the Nama or name in the sense that it indicates a form which is the object corresponding to it, namely the body. The Linga-sarira, the Sukshma-sarira of ours, is our name. That is our real name, and if at all we name ourselv

The Mandukya Upanishad 3.7 : Swami Krishnananda

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============================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-7. -------------------------------------------------------------------- #We cannot know what is inside us, and we cannot also know what is inside the world. *Now, to see what is inside the world is not to break the earth into pieces, just as, to see what is inside us, it would not be enough if we simply pierce the heart or break the body. The 'inside' is not to be taken in this sense. It is not the inside of a room, a hall or a house. **This is a peculiar kind of 'inside' which we cannot easily understand, unless we think over it deeply. Even if we break through the body or split an object, we cannot see the 'inside' of the body or the object because the physical internality of the object is not the real 'inside' of it. Even that