MUNDAKOPANISHAD : CHAPTER-3. SECTION-1. MANTRAM-3. { Annihilation of sorrow through God realization Continued ... }

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Chennai Thiruvallikeni Parthasarathy temple

MUNDAKA  UPANISHAD

 CHAPTER-3.

SECTION-1.

MANTRAM-3. { Annihilation  of  sorrow  through  God  realization  Continued  .....}

Discussion-2. "Awareness  ...."

On  redeeming  himself  from  his  per-occupation  with  the  world,  both  with-out  and  with-in,  to  some  extent  he  experiences  a  state  of  vacuum  or  zero  which  is  experienced  as  a  blank  or  void  only  with  reference  to  his  previous  experiences  of  mental  agitations  and  intellectual  disturbances.


With  reference  to  the  dream,  which  the  dreamer  was  seeing,  when  he  wakes  up,  he  can  certainly  say  his  mind  is  void  ( of  the  dream  and  his  dream  experiences ).


A  seeker  observing  with-in,  at  this  moment  discovers  for  himself  that  this  void  is  a  fact  "positively" known  and  realized  by  him,  and  therefore,  there  is  a  "Positive  Awareness"  which  is  making  it  possible  for  him  to  be  conscious  of  the  very  state  of  blankness.


Thus,  to  a  seeker  the  "MENTAL  VOID" becomes  a  serene  object  for  conemplation  and  at  this  moment "HE  BECOMES  AWARE  OF  'AWARENESS'  ITSELF".

Next : Discussion-3.  "A  state  of  ABSOLUTE  AND  UNSHAKABLE  EQUIPOISE" ......

To be  continued  ....


   
know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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