Mandukya Upanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

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 dissocia...

Monday, June 15, 2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-10. #So, this waking consciousness, Jagaritasthana, which is externally conscious, Bahihprajna, is cosmically Saptanga, seven-limbed, and individually Eka Vimsati Mukha, nineteen-mouthed, and it is Sthula bhug in both ways, individually and cosmically. While in the case of the Virat it is only an awareness of the physical cosmos, in the case of the Jiva it is a desire for the physical objects of the cosmos.  ##This is one distinction. While in the case of the Virat the whole universe is comprehended in its consciousness, the Jiva cannot comprehend the whole universe in its consciousness. It is related only to certain things of the world. While there are no likes and dislikes for the Virat, inasmuch as everything is comprehended within its consciousness, there are likes and dislikes for the Jiva because the consciousness of the Jiva is particularised.  ###We have no universal desire in us. There is no desire in us tha...

==================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 05, 2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. While the consciousness in terms of the totality of all the physical bodies, inclusive of all animate and inanimate things, may be regarded as the Vaisvanara, or the Virat, the very same consciousness animating a particular body in the waking consciousness is called Visva. The Visva is the Atman enlivening the physical body; Vaisvanara is the Atman reigning supreme in the physical cosmos. This is the twofold waking life, individual and the Cosmic; – Jagnritasthana. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Now, we consider the meaning of Bahihprajna : outwardly conscious.  While both the Jiva and Isvara may be regarded as outwardly consc...

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