Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

=========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 our...

============================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...

=================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/04/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #What do the nineteen mouths of the Jiva consume?  *Physical objects.  #What do we see?  *Physical objects.  #What do we hear?  *Physical things.  #What do we taste?  *Physical objects.  #And what do we grasp with our hands?  *Physical objects.  #Where do we walk with our feet?  *On the physical earth.  #What do we think in our minds?  *Physical objects.  All the functions of ours through these nineteen mouths are connected with the physical world. Even the ideas that we may entertain in our minds are connected with physical objects.  We cannot think only subtle things, because eve...

==================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ 16/04/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-5. ----------------------------------------------------------- 1.Now, while this Cosmic Person, the Virat, may be regarded as the Consciousness of Universal Waking; we are also, in our work of analysis of consciousness in its first phase, concerned with the microcosmic aspect, the state of Jivatva – individuality. It is here that it is supposed to have nineteen mouths. Its mouth is the organ by which we consume things, take in objects, appropriate material by assimilation into our bodies, digest them into ourselves, as it were.  2.This is the function of the mouth. The medium of the reception of objects into our own self is the mouth. In one sense, the eyes also are the mouth, the ears, are the mouth, because they receive and absorb certain vibrations through different functions. Vibrations impinge on our personality th...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13/03/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #This Ananda is equivalent to Chit and Sat – Consciousness and Being. All that was in the lower levels gets absorbed into this Ananda. Whatever meaning we saw in the inanimate level, in the levels of the plants, animals and humans, all this meaning is found in the level of Reality as Ananda; and here, existence, consciousness and bliss become one, while in the lower levels they get separated. There is only existence or 'Sat' in rocks, no Chit and Ananda. Rocks exist, but they do not think; they do not feel; they do not understand; and do not experience joy.  ##But a slow process of the revelatio...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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,...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...