{"id":661,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=661"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:32","slug":"30-kaivalya-upanishad-vol-12-the-upanishad-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/12-the-upanishad-volume-12\/30-kaivalya-upanishad-vol-12-the-upanishad-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-30_Kaivalya Upanishad.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n


\n
\nKAIVALYA UPANISHAD<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Om. Ashwalayana to the Lord
\nParameshthi came and said, "Teach me, Lord, the highest knowledge of Brahman,
\nthe secret knowledge ever followed by the saints, how the wise man swiftly
\nputting from him all evil goeth to the Purusha who is higher than the highest."<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 415<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n


\n
\nCommentary<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nT<\/span>HE
\n<\/span><\/b>Lord Parameshthi is Brahma \u2014 not the creator
\nHiranyagarbha, but the soul who in this Kalpa has climbed up to be the
\ninstrument of creation, the first in time of the Gods, the Pitamaha or original
\nand general Prajapati; the Pitamaha, because all the fathers or special
\nPrajapatis, Daksha and others, are his mind-born children. The confusion between
\nthe grandsire and the Creator, who is also called Brahma, is common; but the
\ndistinction is clear. Thus in the Mundaka Upanishad, brahmā devānām prathamah<\/i><\/span>̣<\/span>
\nsambabhūva,<\/span><\/i> it is the first of Gods, the earliest
\nbirth of Time, the father of Atharva, and not the unborn eternal Hiranyagarbha.
\nIn the Puranas Brahma is described as in fear of his life from Madhu and
\nKaitabha, and cannot be the fearless and immortal Hiranyagarbha. Nor would it be
\npossible for Ashwalayana to come to Hiranyagarbha and say, "Teach me. Lord", for
\nHiranyagarbha has no form, nor is He approachable nor does He manifest Himself
\nto man as Shiva and Vishnu do. He is millionfold. Protean, intangible, and for
\nthat reason He places in each cycle a Brahma or divine Man between Him and the
\nsearch and worship of men. It is Brahma or divine Man who is called Parameshthi,
\n\u2014 or the one full of Parameshtham that which is superlative and highest, \u2014
\nHiranyagarbha. The power of Hiranyagarbha is in Brahma and created through him
\nthe nāma<\/i> and rūpa<\/i> of things in this cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

To Brahma
\nParameshthi Ashwalayana comes as a disciple to Master and says to him, "Lord,
\nteach me the Brahmavidya." He specifies the kind of knowledge he requires. It is
\nvaris<\/i><\/span>̣<\/span>t<\/span>̣<\/span>ha,
\n<\/span><\/i>the best or highest, because it goes beyond the
\ntriple Brahman to the Purushottama or Most High God; it is secret, because even
\nin the ordinary teaching of Vedanta, Purana and Tantra it is not expressed, it
\nis always followed by the saints, the initiate. The santah<\/i><\/span>̣<\/span><\/i>
\nor saints are those who are pure of desire and full of knowledge and it is to
\nthese that the secret knowledge has been given sadā,<\/i> from the beginning.
\nHe makes his meaning yet clearer<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 416<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n

by stating the
\nsubstance of the knowledge\u2014yathā,<\/i> how, by what means won by knowledge,
\nvidvān,<\/i> one can swiftly put sin from him and reach Purushottama.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are three
\nnecessary elements of the path to Kaivalya, \u2014 first, the starting-point,
\nvidyā,<\/i> right knowledge, implying the escape from ignorance, from
\nnon-knowledge and false knowledge; next the process or means, escape from
\nsarvapāpam,<\/i> all evil, i.e. sin, pain and grief; last, the goal, Purushottama,
\nthe being who is beyond the highest, that is, beyond turīya,<\/i> Turiya being
\nthe Highest. By the escape from sin, pain and grief one attains absolute
\nānanda,<\/i> the last term of existence, we reach that in which Ananda exists.
\nWhat is that? It is not Turiya who is śivam, śāntam, advaitam, saccidānandam,<\/i>
\nbut that which is beyond śivam<\/i> and aśivam,<\/i> good and evil,
\nśantam<\/i> and kalilam,<\/i> calm and chaos, dvaitam<\/i> and advaitam,<\/i>
\nduality and unity. Sat, Chit and Ananda are in their Highest, but He is neither
\nSat, Chit nor Ananda nor any combination of these. He is all and yet He is
\nneti, neti.<\/i> He is One and yet He is many. He is Parabrahman and He is
\nParameshwara. He is Male and He is Female. He is tat<\/i> and He is sa.<\/i>
\nThis is the Higher than the Highest. He is the Purusha, the Being in whose image
\nthe world and all the Jivas are made, who pervades all and underlies all the
\nworkings of Prakriti as its reality and self. It is this Purusha that
\nAshwalayana seeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 417<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KAIVALYA UPANISHAD     Om. Ashwalayana to the Lord Parameshthi came and said, "Teach me, Lord, the highest knowledge of Brahman, the secret knowledge ever…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-the-upanishad-volume-12","wpcat-14-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}