The Mandukya Upanishad 3.11 : Swami Krishnananda

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Tuesday, July 07, 2020.8:14. AM.
Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-11.

Isvara's Bahihprajnata is a liberated state. It is capable of being simultaneously aware of all creation, while we here are aware of a few things by succession. We cannot think even two things at the same time. 

How, then, to think of all things at the same time? 

While the consciousness of the Virat is simultaneity of existence – therefore it is Omniscience, Sarvajnatva – the Jiva's consciousness is successive, operating by jumps from one to another, and so it cannot comprehend all things. 


It is Al pajna, little-knowing. While Virat is everywhere, Sarvantaryarmin, the Jiva is Aikadesika, existing only at one place. We cannot occupy two seats at the same time, while Isvara can occupy all seats at the same time. While the Virat is Sarvasaktiman, All-powerful, Almighty, because of His simultaneous association with everything, the Jiva is Al pasaktiman, impotent, with no power, because he is dissociated from things. 

The power of the Virat is not due to grasping things with His hands, but due to His being immanent in all things. His knowledge is insight, not perception. The consciousness or knowledge of the Virat is an intuition of the whole cosmos, while the consciousness of the Jiva in the waking state in regard to the objects is a sensory perception; it is not an insight. We have no insight into things, and we have no intuition of objects. Because of that reason, we cannot have power over things. We are weak in our wilt and in our body. 

We desire, but we cannot fulfil our desires, because of this weakness of ours. Our desires are our weakness; and the Virat's strength is His desirelessness. The more you desire, the weaker do you become; the less you desire, the stronger you are, so that the highest state of desirelessness is the state of the Virat or Vaisvanara. It is here that the Jiva transfers itself to Isvara, and does not long for things, and so does not hate things. 

This Mantra of the Mandukya Upanishad is a description of the first quarter of the Atman; the first stage of the investigation of consciousness in its relation to waking life, both individually and cosmically, called respectively, Visva and Vaisvanara, or Jiva and the Virat.
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Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara- Ends.
Next- Section - 4.The Mystery of Dream and Sleep
To be continued 

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