Advaita Prakaranam of Mandukya Upanishad (Chapter 3) Part 23

 

karika 25

Sambhuterapavadacca sambhavah pratishidhyate
konvenam janayet iti karanam pratishidhyate

Some more sruti statements are taken for discussion. First is in Isavasya (12). He gives only the idea and not an actual quotation. In Isa, various upasanas were talked about. One is an HG upasana.

There, HG is given a special name, and that is Sambhutih. Why is he called Sambhutih? Sambhutih is janma. SamBhu. HG is called sambhutih because he has got janma. Isvara is birthless, and from him is born HG. Brahma devanam prathamah + So he is called prathamajah. Jyeshthah putrah.

HG has a birth. His name itself is Sambhutih. Samyag bhutih janma asya asti iti. HG Upasana is condemned there. (“mrityoh sa mrityum gacchati ya iha naneva pasyati”). Apavada is done. Dismissal is done. If HG upasana is condemned, it is as good as condemning HG. HG Upasana ninda is HG ninda. It cannot be taken as real. What is satyam cannot be condemned. What is condemned is not real. So, HG is mithya. It is the first creation. If the first creation is mithya, what can to talk of Virat, etc. Right from HG, the whole creation is asatyam. Even though it is not clearly said there. Because of the condemnation of HG Upasana and HG, what is the indication? (HG dvara)

Sambhavah pratishidhyate. Very creation is dismissed. HG represents the whole creation. Again Br. Up comes. Ko nu enam +. (Br.Up 3.9.28) enam jivam who can create? This is Yanjavalkya’s statement. It starts from 3.1. There is a big competition to find out who is the greatest Brahma jnani. Many have assembled. The prize is thousands of cows. Even before the start of the competition, he takes away the cows. How dare you take the cows? He says I needed it, and so I took it. You have to win the competition. Yes. Let anybody ask any question, I will ask.

Each one asks questions to him, and he ushastha, Kahola, Gargi (brhamavadini), etc. She comes a second time. After all the tenth people had answered, he asked if there were any questions from anybody. Nobody comes forward. Then he says I will ask you questions. He gives a mysterious statement.

In that particular section, this question comes. Her,e exactly no question, but it is a final statement. Nobody can create jiva. Jiva is one with Brahman. Aksheparthe. Brahman is not a karanam. So creation is not there. Karananishedhena karya nishedah kriyate.

Karanam + Cause is negated. The effect is also negated. The only difference is jiva utpatti nishedha. Even though we discuss jagat utpatti nishedha, it is more relevant in jiva utpatti nishedha. (Katha also “nayam kutascit na +” 1.2.18)

Karika 26

Sa esha neti neti iti vyakhyatam ninhute yatah
sarvamagrahya bhavena hetuna ajam prakasate.

Another quotation from Br. Up is taken. (Br.Up 2.3.6) It is a famous one. This is not, this is not.

Thus, atma is to be understood. It means I am atma. Brahman has to be understood by negating everything else. By owning up to oneself. Br Up divides the whole creation into two portions. Murta is formful, and amurta is formless. Sthukla is murtam, and sukhshma is amurtam. Akasa and Vayu are formless.

The section itself is called murtamurta brahmanam, and it starts from 2.3. After this brahmanam, the Upanishad says Brahman is neither murta (one neti) nor amurta (by another neti). Whatever is left out is Brahman. What is it? I alone will be left out. Sruti says that it is Brahman. it is a method for revealing atma. Creation is introduced and negated. Listen to the sound. Listen to the silence.

Awareness alone is there. No more awareness of something. To know svarupa jnanam through vritti jnanam. So, Srishti is introduced to negate later to reveal Atma. So tatparyam is not in srishti. It is adhyaropa apavada nyaya for adhishthana bodhanam.

The quotation means sah esha atma - atma is this. After saying atma is this, Sruti goes on negating everything else. So whatever is left out, nishedha avadhi rupena yat avasishyate tad eva atma svarupam. By this vyakhyatam + vyakhyatam sarvam ninhute.

Meaning negates. Sarvam murta amurta prapancatmakam sarvam. Which has been introduced in the previous portion.

Vyakhyatam in the previous portion of the Brhadaranyaka. The intention of sruti is atma is agrahya rupam. Not an object of experience. Grahanam is grasping. But through pramanam. That which is grasped through pramanas like pratyaksha.

Agrahyam means not so grasped through any pramanam. Murtamurta prapancam is grahyam. So, sarva grahya prapancam is negated by negating murtamurta prapancam. If sarva grahya prapancam is negated, what is left out is agrahyam. It is undeniable I, atma, the negator. The caitnayam. Grahakah. Isvarah is also another grahya vastu. He will be dismissed with that prapanca. If he has to survive this massive bulldozing vakyam of neti neti, he has to be agrahya atma. Why is this method used because anything we experience happens to be anatma. So to arrive at atma, we use this method.

My Thoughts .............. 76

 

1) With love and care, our dear ones glow differently, which we can notice in kids!

2) Everyone has a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply), it is upto you to convert it to UAS (Uninterrupted Anandah Supply) by outgrowing your blocks created by Ragah, Dwesha, etc

3) The dreamer doesn't accept the dream as a dream in the dream!

4) When you tell people about your dreams, they may not understand them. Show them in reality! 

5) The distance between Paramatma and Jivatma is Ignorance!

6) If you believe in yourself, you will succeed!

7) Remember, whether it's a machine, a house, or a relationship, maintenance is often cheaper than repair.

8 ) Eat your food as medicine and not medicine as your food!

9) None can steal your knowledge from your mind, but wealth can be stolen from your lockers!

10) Once you accept, "Who am I", there will not be any struggle to become Who you're not!

Advaita Prakaranam of Mandukya Upanishad (Chapter 3) Part 22

 

Karika 23

भूततोऽभूततो वापि सृज्यमाने समा श्रुतिः ।
निश्चितं युक्तियुक्तं च यत्तद्भवति नेतरत् ॥ २३ ॥

bhūtato'bhūtato vāpi sṛjyamāne samā śrutiḥ |
niścitaṃ yuktiyuktaṃ ca yattadbhavati netarat || 23 ||

Jagat utpatti nishedha is over. Yukti, in simple form, is that if the world is born, it must be karyam. If the world is karyam, and Brahman is karanam. But Brahman cannot be karanam because it is changeless. Why don't you say something other than Brahman is karanam. No. Sadeva saumya.

There is nothing other than Brahman. If the world has to be karyam, Brahman alone has to be karanam. But it cannot be karanam. So the world cannot be karyam. Maya was there. That Maya is a separate cause from Brahman. Maya is the only medium for creating vivarta karyam. It converts Brahman into a vivarta karanam.

Why not real karanam. Maya cannot make Brahman Saviakram. Brahman’s nature is nirvikara. Brahman’s nature is not changed by Maya. Like ajnanam can make rope into only a vivarta karanam. Not parinami. Either Brahman is not a karanam. As though karanam or a vivarta karanam. As though intelligent. It is the opposite. Ajati vada says no creation, and vivarta vada says as though creation. Both same.

Now we have to find the sruti support. This is from the 23rd onwards. Purvapakshi will run to Sruti when his logic is exhausted. So, when Sruti says Jagat creation, how can you negate? Etasmat jayate pranah in kaivalya and mundaka and tai and ch. Acharya says sruti only talks about creation, and it does not say whether it is aparinami karyam or vivarta karyam. The Karyam idea alone is given. Sruti leaves it for us. Sruti neither says as though nor real. We have to do it. Srutih samana. Srishti Srutih is common for you and me. Bhutah means real. Abhutatah means unreal. Parinami or vivarta. Now we have to see what is logical alone has to be the meaning. Not what you fancy. You may like Parinami.

In the later slokas, he will do that analysis. It is called tatparya niscayah through mimamsa. It is called niscitam. By upakramadi shadlinga vicaraih. taih tatparyatvvena niscitam. How established he does not say. Shadlingaih iti we have to supply. It is called sravanam. Whatever objections are raised by other people, we have to dismiss all those views by manaanm or logic. yat - whatever conclusion we have arrived. Tat-Tat alone is the tatparyam of sruti. This is correct - is not enough. This alone is correct. It means everything else is not correct - this is also a must. Knowledge has no vikalpas. That is a refutation of other thoughts. Niscitam is sravanam, and yukti yuktam is mananam. What is arrived at by this process. Srishti is mithya. Not bhutatah srishtih. He is going
to give some samples of this process.

Karika 24

नेह नानेति चाऽऽम्नायादिन्द्रोमायाभिरित्यपि ।
अजायमानो बहुधा मायया जायते तु सः ॥ २४ ॥

neha nāneti cā''mnāyādindromāyābhirityapi |
ajāyamāno bahudhā māyayā jāyate tu saḥ || 24 ||

Three sruti quotations are taken here. First is from Katha. Manasa eva idam aptavyam neha nanasti. Mrtyoh sa mrtyum gacchati ya iha naneva pasyati (Katha 2.1.11). There is no plurality here. The important point here is that it does not use past tense or future tense but present tense. If sruti means Brahman has really created the world, and it is parinami karanam, and it has divided itself into a pluralistic world, it would say plurality is real, and now there is plurality it has to say.

There was no plurality before Srishti. Nana na asit. Idanim nana asti. It says idanimapi nana nasti. Nana na asit. Nana na asti. Na bhavishyati. So Srishti has to be unreal.

The second is from Br. Up. ( 2.5.19) Indrah mayabhih +. Indra means Brahman. Mayasahitam Brahman. Pururupah is bahurupah. Assumes many forms. This is also a statement of creation. By what? Mayabhih. The word to be noted is through Maya. Maya means the same as we know elsewhere. In a magical sense. Indrajalam.

Seeming illusions for us, mayavi creates. What is not possible, he seemingly makes it possible. What cannot logically happen seems to happen. That is Maya. Here also, Brahman cannot become many. Why? Brahman is nirvikarah. Seemingly becomes many. So by Maya or magic. It is always unreal. Indrah, the Lord, does it through his magic power. That is a cosmic magic power. Like a waker becomes many in a dream, seemingly, without dividing himself.

Sruti herself clearly says srishti is mayikam, mithya. People also interpret this as they like. They say Maya is a real sakti of the lord, and he creates a real world with the help of that power. It is not unreal. So he gives another quotation. Third is ajayamanah bahudha + Tasya + maricinam + ( Yaj Veda 31.19). Very popular suktam.

Here, Sruti says Purushah Brahman is born in manifold ways. How? Mayaya. The controversy is whether it is really born or apparently born. We said unreal. Visishtadvaitin said it is real creation.

Here, the word to note is ajayamanah. Without being born. It has created itself into many. There is virodha. It is possible in only one way. Without changing, it becomes many means, it is vivarta karanam for the world. Means no creation. No other meaning is possible. We cannot say without really creating that he really creates, can we? So unreal. Prana samvadavat in 3.15 karika.

In the Gita, we also have the same idea. Ajopi san avyayatma + Remaining birthless, I am born. Only in one way is it possible. Birth is seeming. Two contradictory things cannot co-exist. Like darkness and light. They must belong to two orders of reality. Ajah is paramarthika satyam. Why not put it the other way around? Birth is real, and birthlessness is vyavaharika. If birth is the real nature of the lord, birthlessness is apparent; that lord is samsari or not? Why should we seek him? Ajam is satyam. Then alone the lord is purusharthah.

A small portion of each quotation is given. Amnaya is Veda Vakyam. Iti veda vakyat. Third is only arthatah pathati. Ajayamanah sah mayaya bahudha jayate. So wherever Srishti vakyam comes, we have to add ‘mayaya’ in tai up, etc.

My Thoughts.....................75

 

1) They say, "You learn a lot being alone", which is ordinary. Stay among a crowd and learn in the chaos; that is precious!

2) Machines are perfect; be realistic, and not a perfectionist!

3) The KEY is Keep Educating Yourself!

4) In a book called "Journey of Life", there may be a few bad chapters too, but that doesn't define one's life!

5) "I want someone who cries for me" .. Why can't you have someone who feels happy and joyous for you, instead of crying, do not make others feel miserable!

6) A house cannot be repaired when the owner is destroying it!

7) Change is inevitable; if you're holding on to the old you, it will destroy you, as it will not accept the change!

8 ) The fear of unknown is greater than the known!

9) Don't have misplaced value for those who do not add value to your life!

10) Remember, your words create your world; talk wisely and sweetly!

10) Remember, those who enjoy borrowed happiness through family members, friends, relatives, or things will have to please them as interest paid on the borrowings.

My Thoughts.....................74

 

1) Your choices show what you are, not your abilities!

2) Don't chase; they run away. Instead, attract, and they will seek you!

3) Light and object look one and the same, but are different, without light object cannot exist, yet it develops ego, the light, the reason for the object to exist is always humble and selfless!

4) You never know the importance of light until you face darkness!

5) When you speak, speak to bless and not to impress or criticise!

6) If you're beautiful from within, your face will glow without any fake glowing layers

7) Progress from What-Why-When-Where-How! #evolve

8 ) When you decide to put an end to the gossip world, you will realize many left you without even saying goodbye!

8 ) In today's world, common sense is rare, and those who possess it, possesses it as a punishment. As they have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it!

9) Be nice to all for no reason, with reason comes expectation, which leads to problems!

10) Beautiful souls recognise beautiful souls. Stay genuine; special people will find you!

My Thoughts.....................73

 

1) The one you're looking for is YOU. The real YOU is within you, find him!

2) Loneliness is by choice; you feel bliss, aloneness is by force, where you are ready to cling to worldly things!

3) Silence speaks volumes!

4) In this manipulative world, simple and innocent people are considered nerds!

5) Human mind is always fascinated by the unknown; the moment it becomes known, you lose interest unless there is more to explore!

6) Heart is full of passion; it does not shout, it whispers. Mind is full of chaos, a devil, which shouts!

7) Ordinary man knows it is life, a Spiritual man knows about life!

8) Remember, only those who are ugly will beautify themselves and be presentable, those who are presentable will present themselves, naturally!

9) When you give, give it and forget, don't ever remember; when you receive, receive it and remember, never ever to forget!

10) Be like a wave, even if it breaks, it rises, don't be like a glass!