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The Mandukya Upanishad 6.1 Swami Krishnananda

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  ---------------------------------- Sunday, November 15, 2020. 07:37. PM. Section 6: The God of the Universe-1. ------------------------------------ I SVARA: The third quarter of the Atman, called Prajna, is identified with the third quarter of the Universal Consciousness called Isvara. Isvara is omnipotent and, therefore, He is regarded as the source and the end of all creation. This Prajna is the causal state of the universe, both outwardly and inwardly. Macrocosmically, we regard this consciousness as the Creator of the whole universe, while microcosmically, the very same consciousness is the creator of this internal world of the Jiva. This Consciousness as the cause of all things is also the Lord over everything – Esha sarvesvarah. Now, this epithet 'Sarvesvara' as also the other qualification, 'Sarvajna', omniscient, cannot be attributed to the Jiva, because the Jiva is not Sarvesvara, and so not also Sarvajna. The Mandukya Upanishad seems to make no palpable dist

The Mandukya Upanishads - 5.3. Swami Krishnananda.

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  -------------------------------------------- Friday, November 06, 2020. 09:30. AM. Section - 5.Consciousness and Sleep - 3. --------------------------------------------- Futile it is to run after the shadows of the world of objects. Foolishly you go to the things of the world which only tire your senses and drive you back to sleep, giving you nothing, giving you false promises, tantalising you, making you look foolish. This is the world; and yet, again and again, do you go to the world, forgetting what you saw in the state of sleep. We forget the sleep experience. This is the malady of all our waking toils. If you could remember what you had in sleep, you will never come back to this waking world of multiplicity. If consciousness were there in sleep, you would not like to return to this waking world. But you remain unconscious. So, you arc driven back by an impulse of work, once again, to the waking world. Consciousness of sleep is equal to Samadhi. If sleep is to be coupled with con