MUNDAKOPANISHAD : CHAPTER-3. SECTION-2. MANTRAM-8{ Analogy of rivers meeting ocean .... realised-men gaining Brahmam. }

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MUNDAKOPANISHAD
 CHAPTER-3. 
 SECTION-2.
 MANTRAM-8. { Analogy of rivers meeting  ocean  ....  realised-men  gaining Brahmam. }

  Discussion-3. "The  state  of  Pure  Awareness  gained  by  a  seeker  ...... "

This  natural  phenomenon  is  made  use  of  in  the  scripture  to  explain  to  us  the  state  of  'Pure  Awareness' by  a  seeker  in  the  fulfilment  of  his  goal  of  life.

As  long  as  a  seeker  has  a  concept  of  separateness,  which  he  maintains  in  his  false  identifications  with  the  matter-wrappings  about  him,  so  long  in  him  exists  the  'samsarik'  ego-centre.

This  ego  is  the  painful,  mortal,  suffering  the  limitations  of  the  material  world.

The  moment  he  realizes,  through  discriminative  analysis  and  consistent  meditations,  that  he  is,  in  his  real  nature,  nothing  but  the  'Spiritual  Factor' and  that  even  the  very  delusive  'matter- envelopments'  as  the  body,  mind  and  intellect,  can  come  to  exist  and  threaten  his  peace  and  quietude  only  when  blessed  by  the  very  'Divinity' that  he  is,  all  his  egoistic  concepts  end  once  for  ever.

"Where  ego  has  ended,  there  one  experiences  pure  God-hood"--- 
'The  Highest  of  the  High,  Supreme  Divinity.'

Next : Mantram-9. ( Knower  of  Brahmam  becomes  Brahmam. ) 
To be continued  ....

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

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