Mundaka Upanishad : an Upanishad of Atharva-Veda.
... Katha Upanishad, 1.1.15. 58. The Life Divine, p. 262. Page 110 for He is in the language of the Isha Upanishad paribhu ḥ 59 , "the One who has become everywhere". The Mundaka Upanishad has this to say about this "Luminous One who is at once smaller than the minutest particle and in whom are set all the worlds and their peoples" 60 : "That [is] the invisible, that the... shaped itself to form and form (r ū parh rupa ṁ pratir ū po babh ū va 68 ). This incapacity on our part to vision "the Lustre that is the most 59. Isha Upanishad, 8. 60. Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.2: "yadarcimad yada ṇ ubhyo' ṇ u ca yasmin lok ā nihit ā lokina ś ca." 61 & 62. Ibid., 1.1.6. II.2.1 (In Sri Aurobindo's translation). 63. Ibid., Rig-Veda, I... when the inner being is purified by a glad serenity of Knowledge, then indeed, with the eye of meditation, one can behold the Spirit indivisible." 75 69. Isha Upanishad, 16. 70. Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.1. 71. Ibid., II .2.1. 72. Katha Upanishad, II.2.15 (in Sri Aurobindo's translation). Cf.Sri Aurobindo's Ilion, p. 108: "There our sun cannot shine and our moon ...
... and above us; it stretches everywhere. All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent universe. Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.9 , 2.2.12 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad द्वा सुपर्णा सयुजा सखाया समानं वृक्षं परिषस्वजाते। तयोरन्यः पिप्पलं स्वाद्वत्त्यनश्नन्नन्यो... stretched out the path of the journey of the gods, by which the sages winning their desire ascend there where Truth has its Supreme abode. Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad ॐ आयाहि वरदे देवि सर्वार्थसाधिके। ॐ आयाहि वरदे देवि यक्षरे ब्रह्मवादिनि। ॐ आयाहि वरदे मीरा हृदये परमेश्वरि । om āyāhi varade devi ...
... repeated in the Mundaka Upanishad, (III. 1.1,2,3) and also in Shwetashwatara Upanishad (IV.5, 6,7,10). Since this parable forms the basis of the Gita's insistence and development of the distinction between Purusha and Prakriti, it would be extremely useful to study the relevant verses in their original formulation. These verses are as follows, which are taken from the Mundaka Upanishad: 'Two birds... else Thou art the young virgin, and Thou art yonder worn and aged man that walkest bending upon a staff. Lo, Thou becomest born and the universe groweth full of Thy faces." (IV. 1, 3) The Mundaka Upanishad describes the integral ultimate reality as follows: "He who is the Omniscient, the all-wise, He whose energy is all made Page 91 of knowledge, from Him is born this that is... 1971, Vol. 10, pp. 191-2. Page 117 "Mother's Agenda, Institut de Recherches Evolutives (I.R.E.), Paris, 1981, Vol. 2, pp. 375-7. 54 Ibid., pp. 382-3. 55 Vide, Mundaka Upanishad, 1.2.6,10,11,12. "Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol.12, pp. 231-2. 57 It would be useful to state that there have been in the history of thought and spiritual ...
... front of us, Brahman behind us, and to the south of us and to the north of us and below us and above us; It stretches everywhere. All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent universe." ( Mundaka Upanishad II, 12) At long last, the dichotomy that is tearing this poor world apart between God and the Devil – as if one always had to choose between heaven and earth, and could never be saved except... or rather condensed Consciousness-Energy: "By energism of Consciousness 54 Page 56 Brahman is massed; from that Matter is born and from Matter Life and Mind and the worlds." ( Mundaka Upanishad I.1.8) All here is Consciousness, because all is Being or Spirit. All is Chit , because all is Sat – Sat-Chit – at every level of Its own manifestation. The history of our earthly evolution... × 387 Rig Veda I.101. × 388 Mundaka Upanishad I.2.8. × 389 Savitri, 29:370 ...
... We may refer to an important verse in this connection which occurs in Rig Veda, 17 and this verse is repeated in the Mundaka Upanishad with two more verses. 18 These verses are also to be found in Svetasvatara Upanishad to some extent. The three verses of the Mundaka Upanishad are as follows: "Two birds, beautiful of wing, close companions, cling to one common tree: of the two one eats the... Illusion and Maheshwara, the almighty, for the lord of the Illusion: this whole moving world is filled in with created things as with His members."²¹ Similarly, the following verse from Mundaka Upanishad is also relevant: "He, the divine, the formless Purusha, even He is the outward and the inward and He the Unborn; He is beyond life, beyond mind, luminous, Supreme beyond the immutable ...
... VII.5 14 Ibid., XVIII.65, 66 15 Vide., Ibid., II.16,II.30 16 Ibid.,IV9 17 Rig Veda (RV), I.164.20 18 Mundaka Upanishad, III.1.1-3 19 Svetasvatara Upanishad, IV.6, 7 20 Ibid.,IV.5 21 Ibid., IV.10 22 Mundaka Upanishad, 1.2 23 Katha Upanishad, I.3.3-13 24 BG.,II.62-3 25 Ibid., II.61 26 Ibid., II. 55-72 Page 153 ... 10, 12-16, 24, 26, 27 36 RV ., X.l29.2 37 Ibid.I.170.1 38 Ibid 39 Ibid., IV.58.3 40 Ibid.X.90 41 Isha Upanishad, 5 42 Katha Upanishad, II.3.8 43 Mundaka Upanishad, II.1.2 44 Kena Upanishad, III. 12 45 5G.XV.7 46 Ibid.,IX.8 47 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971. Vol. 18, pp. 146-7, where we find a statement describing ...
... knowledge, purified in their being. Mundaka Upanishad. (III. 2. 6.) He strives by these means and has the knowledge: in him this spirit enters into its supreme status.... Satisfied in knowledge, having built up their spiritual being, the Wise, in union with the spiritual self, reach the Omnipresent everywhere and enter into the All. Mundaka Upanishad. (III. 2. 4, 5.) In the ...
... man himself, the objective one with its business of life, the subjective one with its disinterested joy of vision." That is how Rabindranath Tagore interprets the two-bird metaphor of Mundaka Upanishad. He seems to tell us that the act of seeing is more imaginative, more creative, more real than the act of knowing. The delight of the bird that looks on is greater than that of the bird that... objective universe- Is this true ? Does the Page 149 Upanishadic two-bird metaphor imply that ? The parable of the two birds illustrated in the Mundaka Upanishad is as follows: "Two birds, beautiful of wings, close companions, cling to one common tree: of the two one eats the sweet fruit of the tree, the other eats not but watches ...
... of the richness of the records of the yogic experiences that we find in the pages of the Upanishads. There are, however, a few passages in the Chhandogya Upanishad, Shwetashwatara Upanishad, Mundaka Upanishad, and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, which need to be underlined even within our limited scope. Here are a few extracts from Chhandogya Upanishad, which contain the famous Upanishadic affirmation... and which inspires works involving teaching of others. [iv] Comparable affirmations of the object of yogic knowledge and methods of yoga are to be found in the Page 70 Mundaka Upanishad, which is also one of the Principal Upanishads, We may refer to the following: "Shaunaka, the great house-lord, came to Angiras in the due way of the disciple and asked of him, "Lord, by knowing ...
... Katha Upanishad, or as Pippalada in the Prashna Upanishad, or Brahma, the first of the Gods — devanam Prathamah, to Atharvan, he to Angir, Angir to Satyavaha the Bhardwaja, or Angiras in the Mundaka Upanishad or as Uma Haimavati, the Divine Mother who knows the Supreme, in the Kena Upanishad. "Arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn from them; for sharp as a razor's edge, hard to Page... and home of man. It is described here as the greater infinite heavenly world, (Swargaloka - Swarloka of the Veda), which is not the lesser Swarga of the Puranas or the lesser Brahmaloka of the Mundaka Upanishad, its world of the sun's rays to which the soul arrives by works of virtue and piety, but falls from them by the exhaustion of their merit; it is the higher Swarga or Brahman-world of the Katha ...
... Upanishad, and Katha Upanishad. 22 RV, 1.71.2. 23 RV, 1.72.9. 24 RV. 1V.l. 17-18. 25 Rv,1v.2.19 26 Katha Upanishad 3.1.14. 27 Ibid. 2.1.23; Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.3. 28 katha Upanishad 2.1.24. 29 Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.4. 30 katha Upanishad 2.1.1-13. 31 Mandukya Upunishad 3-7. 32 See Kaivalya Upanishad I. 33Isha Upanishad 5. 34 Ibid.8. ...
... Prajapatis, Daksha and others, are his mind born children. The confusion between the Grandsire and the Creator, who is also called Brahma, is common; but the distinction is clear. Thus in the Mundaka Upanishad ब्रह्मा देवानां प्रथमः संबभूव, it is the first of Gods, the earliest birth of Time, the father of Atharva, and not the unborn eternal Hiranyagarbha. In the Puranas Brahma is described as in fear ...
... realisation of His divine nature 11 in our human existence. Page 19 × "Padbhyāṁ pṛthivī." — Mundaka Upanishad , II. 1. 4. "Pṛthivī pājasyam." — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad , I. 1. 1. × Kena Upanishad ...
... culminates. It is thus a fitting close and consummation to the Upanishad. Page 82 × Sūryadvāreṇa. —Mundaka Upanishad I. 2. 11. × Anilam amṛtam. ...
... false as the true. Maitri Upanishad. (VII. 10.) They live and move in the Ignorance and go round and round, battered and stumbling, like blind men led by one who is blind. Mundaka Upanishad. (I. 2. 8.) One whose intelligence has attained to Unity, casts away from him both sin and virtue. Gita. (II. 50.) He who has found the bliss of the Eternal is ...
... Prasna Upanishad II. 6 and 13. × manomayaḥ prāṇaśarīranetā. Mundaka Upanishad II. 2. 8. × antaḥkaraṇa. × ...
... its basis, its constituent power, its intrinsic substance. Page 572 × manomayaḥ prāṇaśarīranetā —Mundaka Upanishad , 2. 2. 7. ...
... , several levels meeting and combining or modifying each other's notes, and an ovcrmind transmission can contain or bring with it all the rest...." (Here are some passages from the Mundaka Upanishad on the transcendent and universal Brahman 1 and some from the Gita's Vision of the Cosmic Spirit. 2 Have they the accent of what you have described in The Future Poetry as the Mantra? The ...
... revelation that, although a variety of relations with God in the cosmic drama is a fact and even a necessity as if man and his source were discrete, there is basically - in the words of the Mundaka Upanishad - "the one Fire that goes forth as many sparks"? Are you theoretically bound to interpret every mystical realisation in terms of a fundamental dualism vis-à-vis the Supreme? Poor Vishwamitra ...
... our sun cannot shine and our moon has no place for her lustres, There our lightnings flash not nor fire of these spaces is suffered, are a rendering of some famous phrases in the Mundaka Upanishad. The stanza, where these phrases occur, is translated thus by Yeats in collaboration with Purohit Swami: "Neithersum, moon, star, neither fire nor lightning lights Him. When He shines, everything ...
... shine and our moon has no place for her lustres, There our lightnings flash not, nor fire of these spaces is suffered. 1 Sri Aurobindo has here rendered some famous phrases of the Mundaka Upanishad. Such passages may leave us most satisfied, but we should not miss in our love of them the fact that Ilion develops in a new way part of the story of Troy after the death of Hector and the ...
... hunger is no doubt an all-important necessary prerequisite but by no means a sufficient condition for the ultimate cancellation of the body's material needs. Let us see why. 1 Mundaka Upanishad, III . Page 259 ...
... place," Like a master-mantra they filled the entire infinity of my loss with the presence of the Mother. Their childlike note of direct truth evoked in my mind a superb sloka of the Mundaka Upanishad translated by Sri Aurobindo: "The Eternal is before us and the Eternal is behind us and to the north and to the south of us and above and below and extended everywhere. All this magnificent ...
... within - a contact which brings about a radiant sense of her presence all around. A glory and a greatness and a grace wake in the inmost to meet the light, the power, the love that are, as the Mundaka Upanishad says of Brahman, "before us and behind us, to the north and to the south of us and above and below and extended everywhere". But after the dream-discovery a few nights ago I see at the same time ...
... God and God as the universe without realising that the latter formula is open-ended, as we mark in Indian pantheism where the Divine is perceived beyond the physical world as well as in it. The Mundaka Upanishad, in Sri Aurobindo's translation, says with a super-Spinozistic enthusiasm; The Eternal is before us and the Eternal is behind us and to the north and to the south of us and above and below ...
... an objective study of the evolution of poetry in the past and an indication of what 129 Savitri , p. 305. 130 Chandogya Upanishad, 3.14.1. 131 Kena Upanishad 1.8. 132 Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.7. 133 Savitri , p. 326. Page 470 poetry is likely to be in the future; it is also, and especially in the final chapters, a programme for the kind of poetry ...
... Kṛta, the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished. × 4 manomayaḥ prāṇaśarīranetā. Mundaka Upanishad, II. 2. 7. × 5 antaḥkaraṇa 6 manaḥ-koṣa ...
... Self is enjoined to follow. It also corroborates the scriptural stipulation as to how the inner being of the doers of askesis is purified by the Yoga of Renunciation, sannyasayogad shuddham . ( Mundaka Upanishad , 3.2.6, The Upanishads , SABCL, Vol. 12, p. 285) We are then told that while proceeding on the Path of Yoga wherever does such a seeker put his step, there opens out for him the rich mine of ...
... Glimpses of Vedic Literature Mundaka Upanishad ...
... develop even in our own times. IlI Vedic literature includes in its comprehensive sense the Vedānga literature as well. Vedānga literature began to develop even before the Upanishads. Mundaka Upanishad mentions 6 Vedāngas as follows: (i) Shikshā, (ii) Kalpa, (iii) Vyākarana, (iv) Nirukta, (v) Chhanda, and (vi) Jyotisha. Each Vedānga takes up one aspect of the Veda and an attempt is made to explain ...
... immortality cannot be won except by Truth - Truth that is all-comprehensive and capable of manifestation without disintegration. It is this realisation that led to the powerful formulation of the Mundaka Upanishad: सत्यमेव जयते (It is truth that conquers), and it is significant that these potent words have now become the motto inscribed in the emblem of free India. Let us first note the fact that ...
... Life Divine, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 19, p. 891-5. 19 Ibid., pp. 895-7. 20 Katha Upanishad, U.I.5. 21 Brahmāndvalli of Taittiriya Upanishad, chapters I - V. 22 Mundaka Upanishad, IL1.2 and 10. 23 Vide., Isha Upanishad, 16. 24 BG, VII.5. 25 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 20, p.283. Page 90 ...
... containing three riks. The first three riks deal with the purification and transformation of life-energy. Vayu is the presiding Deity of life-energy. Vayuh pranah (Vayu is life), says the Mundaka Upanishad. In the Rigveda too there is a clear indication of it. It says, pratnat vayurajayata (Vayu came into existence from the Supreme as Life). This Vayu or life energy is the raison d’être of ...
... wind, and light, and the waters and earth upholding all that is."¹ The utmost transcendence, the most comprehensive universality, and the, all-directing individuality of the ¹ Mundaka Upanishad. Page 384 Divine Presence in the hearts of beings, are all summed up in the Paramātman or Para Purusa whom we seek and adore with the integrality of our being. He delivers ...
... वेद्धव्यं सौम्य विद्धि ॥ yadarcimad yadaṇubhyo’ṇu ca yasṁillokā nihitā lokinaśca, tadetadakṣaraṁ brahma sa prāṇastadu vāṇmanaḥ tadetat satyaṁ tadamṛtaṁ tad veddhavyaṁ saumya viddhi. Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.2 That which is the Luminous, that which is smaller than the atoms, that in which are set the worlds and their peoples, That is This, — it is Brahman immutable: life is That, it is speech ...
... all things, in the beautiful but also in the ugly, in the holy & great but also in that which we look on as base & impure. Looking on Brahman moving & Brahman unmoving we have to say with the Mundaka Upanishad, Tad etat satyam (That yonder is this here & the Truth), & looking on Ishwara & Brahman moving & unmoving we have to say with the same Upanishad, "Purusha evedam sarvam karma tapo brahma paramritam ...
... and home of man. It is described here as the greater infinite heavenly world, (Swargaloka, Swarloka of the Veda), which is not the lesser Swarga of the Puranas or the lesser Brahmaloka of the Mundaka Upanishad, its world of the sun's rays to which the soul arrives by works of virtue and piety, but falls from them by the exhaustion of their merit; it is the higher Swarga or Brahman-world of the Katha ...
... Kena and Other Upanishads Mundaka Upanishad Chapter One: Section I ब्रह्मा देवानां प्रथमः सम्बभूव विश्वस्य कर्ता भुवनस्य गोप्ता । स ब्रह्मविद्यां सर्वविद्याप्रतिष्ठामथर्वाय ज्येष्ठपुत्राय प्राह ॥१॥ 1) Brahma first of the Gods was born, the creator of all, the world's protector; he to Atharvan, his eldest son, declared the God-knowledge in which ...
... containing the last revision of the Second Cycle, was disregarded. In the present volume, the revised TMS is followed for the First Cycle, and the Karmayogin text for the Second. Mundaka Upanishad . Sri Aurobindo first translated this Upanishad in Baroda around 1900; it forms part of TMS. A revised version of the translation was published in the Karmayogin in February 1910. (This revised ...
... , several levels meeting and combining or modifying each other's notes, and an overmind transmission can contain or bring with it all the rest...." (Here are some passages from the Mundaka Upanishad on the transcendent and universal Brahman 1 and some from the Gita's Vision of the Cosmic Spirit. 2 Have they the accent of what you have described in The Future Poetry as the Mantra? The target ...
... × Ibid., p. 836. × E.g. verse 1.1.8 of the Mundaka Upanishad: “Brahman grew by his energy, at work, and then from Him is Matter born, and out of Matter life, and mind and truth and the worlds, and in works immortality”; and in the Aitareya Upanishad, 1 ...
... Swiss critic and poet. Shailen, Anilbaran's brother. Lofty mountain of Greece, north of Delphi; associated in classical Greece with worship of Apollo and the Muses. Mundaka Upanishad, Chap. Ill, Section 1, 1. A new type of metre, ayugma (open syllable), yugma (closed syllable). Cottar or Cotter : a farm-labourer or tenant occupying a cottage in return ...
... so far and whose one spark would be more precious, more potent than the most wide-spreading fame and name and flame the world has known. What I speak of is the transcendent Truth of things the Mundaka Upanishad dazzlingly glimpses in the Mantra as rendered by Sri Aurobindo: There the sun shines not and the moon has no splendour and the stars are blind; there these lightnings flash not nor any earthly ...
... Brahman but who also aims at transmuting into delightful beauty all the flaws, all the phenomenal short- Page 69 comings that are still present in spite of his realisation with the Mundaka Upanishad that "the Eternal is before us and the Eternal is behind us and to the north and to the south of us and above and below and extended everywhere." (4.4.1987) Page 70 ...
... perspectives inherently impregnated with the trinity of Truth, Bliss and Beauty (Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram). This transformational relationship of man and God is depicted in the two-bird metaphor in Mundaka Upanishad, which derives its origin from the two-bird parable in Rig Veda. In case of Amal, an inevitable mile-stone in his pursuit of the Integral Yoga appears that he internalised this realisation, which ...
... Chapter XXI The Order of the Worlds Seven are these worlds in which move the life-forces that are hidden within the secret heart as their dwelling-place seven by seven. Mundaka Upanishad. (II. 1. 8.) May the Peoples of the five Births accept my sacrifice, those who are born of the Light and worthy of worship; may Earth protect us from earthly evil and the Mid-Region ...
... Evolution The Life Divine Chapter XV Reality and the Integral Knowledge This Self is to be won by the Truth and by an integral knowledge. Mundaka Upanishad. (III. 1. 5.) Hear how thou shalt know Me in My totality ... for even of the seekers who have achieved, hardly one knows Me in all the truth of My being. Gita. (VII. 1, 3.) ...
... Chapter XII The Origin of the Ignorance By energism of consciousness(Tapas.) Brahman is massed; from that Matter is born and from Matter Life and Mind and the worlds. Mundaka Upanishad. (I. 1. 8.) He desired, "May I be Many". He concentrated in Tapas, by Tapas he created the world; creating, he entered into it; entering, he became the existent and the beyond-existence ...
... pariyanti mūḍhāḥ andhenaiva nīyamānāḥ yathāndhāḥ . "Living and moving within the Ignorance, they go round and round stumbling and battered, men deluded, like the blind led by one who is blind." — Mundaka Upanishad , I. 2. 8. × para puruṣa, paramātman, parabrahman. ...
... ideals on one side and on the other a blind "shut-my-eyes _______________ * "Earth is his footing" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1.1.1), "in matter he has taken his firm foundation" (Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.8). Page 194 and shut-everybody's-eyes" plunge into the bog in the hope of finding some firm foundation there, will not carry us very far. And what else is there? Until ...
... Rishis. As M.P. Pandit 8 reminds us, "They quite often quote the Riks as seals of approval for their own findings." As examples 9 we may pick out: "This is said by the Riks" from the Mundaka Upanishad (III. 2.10) - "That is said by the Rishi" from the Aitareya (IV.5) - "So also says the Verse" from the Prashna (1.10) - and "Seeing this the Rishi said..." from the Brihadaranayaka (II.5 ...
... Truth was stretched out the path of the journey of the gods, by which the sages winning their desire ascend there where Truth has its Supreme abode. Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged And the golden waters pour Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged And glimmer from shore to shore. Sri Aurobindo ...
... the transcendental SELF. It is this process of transcendence that enables a leader to enter into communion with larger concerns of the organization. For instance, a classical Indian text, the Mundaka Upanishad states: 'The wise, satisfied with their knowledge of the Self after finding it, with their self -disciplined and prepared, dispassionate and serene enter from here into the omnipresent allness ...
... immortality cannot be won except by Truth —Truth that is all-comprehensive and capable of manifestation without disintegration. It is this realisation that led to the powerful formulation of the Mundaka Upanishad: सत्यमेवे जयते (it is truth that conquers), and it is significant that these potent words have now become the motto inscribed in the emblem of free India Let us first note the/act that ...
... many conscious beings, and the seeker who is calm and strong beholds Him in his self as in a mirror, and his is eternal peace in a highest felicity which none can point to nor define it. The Mundaka Upanishad distinguishes between the lower knowledge and the higher knowledge and dwells on the problem of how one can enter into higher knowledge. It is in that context that those contents of higher knowledge ...
... and home of man. It is described here as the greater infinite heavenly world, (Swargaloka, Swarloka of the Veda), which is not the lesser Swarga of the Puranas or the lesser Brahmaloka, of the Mundaka Upanishad, its world of the sun's rays to which the soul arrives by works of virtue and piety, but falls from them by the exhaustion of their merit; it is the higher Swarga or Brahman-world of the Katha ...
... the Being as also of the experience that is even more transcendental which can be applicable to the Absolute Brahman of the Adwaita as well as to the Void or Zero of the Buddhists. In fact, the Mundaka Upanishad speaks of the Supreme beyond the immutable (aksardt paratah parah)? 1 That which is beyond the mutable and the immutable, the Unknowable and the Ineffable, the ultimate x is so real that ...
... 34 Ibid., The Life Divine, Vol. 18, pp. 21-2. 35 Ibid., pp. 22-3; vide also, Isha Upanishad, verse 8. 36 Ibid., p. 27; vide also, Taittiriya Upanishad, II.7. 37 Mundaka Upanishad, II. 1.2. 38 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol., 18, pp. 28-30. 39 Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 20, pp. 239-40. 40 Ibid., p. 263. 41 ...
... been drawn in the Indian pedagogy between two kinds of knowledge, — lower knowledge and higher knowledge, — apara and para vidya. 1 Science, art, philosophy, ethics, psychology, the Mundaka Upanishad 1.3-6 Page 311 knowledge of man and his past, action itself are means by which we arrive at the knowledge of the becomings of the world, of the multiplicity and of the appearances ...
... thunderbolt linger? Or is there again a hitch in London?" Sri Aurobindo's A System of National Education began in the 12th January issue of the Karmayogin. Sri Aurobindo's translation of the Mundaka Upanishad was begun on the 5th Feb, 1910. In the 19th February issue Sri Aurobindo started his poem, Baji Prabhou. It was prefaced by the following note: "This poem is founded on the historical incident ...
... × 18 Thoughts and Aphorisms, no. 383. × 19 Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.12. × 20 Swetaswatara Upanishad, IV.3.4. ...
... prajānāṁ yasmin viśuddhe vibhavatyeṣa ātmā. 9 yaṁ yaṁ lokaṁ manasā saṁvibhāti viśuddhasattvaḥ kāmayate yāṁśca kāmān, taṁ taṁ lokaṁ jayate tāṁśca kāmāṁstasmādātmajñaṁ hyarcayed bhūtikāmaḥ. 10 Mundaka Upanishad 3.1. 8 , 9 , 10 Eye cannot seize, speech cannot grasp Him, nor these other godheads; not by austerity can he be held nor by works: only when the inner being is purified by a glad serenity ...
... pṛthivyāmoṣadhayaḥ sambhavanti, yathā sataḥ puruṣāt keśalomāni tathākṣarāt sambhavatīha viśvam. 7 tapasā cīyate brahma tato'nnamabhijāyate, annāt prāṇo manaḥ satyaṁ lokāḥ karmasu cāmṛtam. 8 Mundaka Upanishad 1.1. 7 , 8 As the spider puts out and gathers in, as herbs spring up upon the earth, as hair of head and body grow from a living man, so here all is born from the Immutable. Brahman grows ...
... sindhavaḥ sarvarūpāḥ, ataśca sarvā oṣadhayo rasaśca yenaiṣa bhūtaistiṣṭhate hyantarātmā. 9 etasmājjāyate prāṇo manaḥ sarvendriyāṇi ca, khaṁ vāyurjyotirāpaḥ pṛthivi viśvasya dhāriṇi. 3 Mundaka Upanishad 2.1. 9 , 3 From Him are the oceans and all these mountains and from Him flow rivers of all forms, and from Him are all plants, and sensible delight which makes the soul to abide with the ...
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