Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, January  22, 2021. 10:40. AM. Section 7: The Transcendent Presence-4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prapancopasamam :  Here all Samsara, all this tumult of creation, subsides, like waves sinking into the ocean, as dream is withdrawn into waking consciousness. The universe, in all its conditions – gross, subtle and causal – ceases here. In this state, there is neither the Virat, nor Hiranyagarbha, nor Isvara; because, there is no creation. This is the Atman where there is neither waking, nor dreaming, nor sleep. Thus, it is called Prapancopasamam. It is not a condition; it is beyond all conditions. It is not a state of affairs. We do not know what it is. It is a mystery. Wonder of all wonders is this: Wonderful is that disciple who can comprehend it from the wonderful teacher who can teach this wonderful Being. Ascaryavat pasya

  ---------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, January  14, 2021. 09:50. AM. Section 7: The Transcendent Presence-3. -------------------------------------------------------- 'Salila Eko Drashta', says Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranayaka Upanishad. The Atman is like an oceanic flood without a surface or a limit. The Atman is the sole Seer, Knower, Beholder, Experiencer, without a counterpart objective to it. It knows itself, not 'others', for the 'others' are also a part of itself. Hence, knowledge of the Atman is the knowledge of the whole of existence. It is not knowledge of this Atman, that Atman, this Self, that self, this person, that person. It is the knowledge of The Atman, which can only be One. The Atman is single – Ekatmapratyayasaram. The One Atman is called the Paramatman as distinguished from the multitudinousness of the so-called Atmans, called Jivatmans. It is Paramatman, because it is the Supreme Self. 'Brahmeti Parnmatm

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, January  06, 2021. 07:40. AM. Section 7: The Transcendent Presence-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Adrishtam :  1.1 Invisible is it. One cannot see it. Whatever be the effort of the eyes, the eyes cannot visualise it. Avyavaharayam: One cannot have any kind of dealings with it. You cannot touch it; you cannot grasp it; you cannot talk to it; you cannot see it; you cannot hear it. No kind of business can be established with it. You cannot have a relationship with it. It is unrelated; non-relational is it. It repels all relation. It is neither friendly nor inimical. Such is the mystery of the Being of all beings. Agrahyam: It is not graspable by the power of the senses. You cannot catch it with the hands, smell it with the nose, taste it with the tongue, hear it with the ears, see it with the eyes. No such thing is possible. Alakshanam: And, therefo