{"id":668,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=668"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:35","slug":"20-mundaka-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\/20-mundaka-upanishad-vol-12-the-upanishad-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-20_Mundaka Upanishad.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:13.5pt\">MUNDAKA UPANISHAD<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><br \/>\n\t\tC<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">HAPTER<br \/>\n<\/span>O<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">NE&nbsp; <\/span>: S<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">ECTION&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>I <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin: 0\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-1.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">1. Brahma first of<br \/>\nthe Gods was born, the creator of all, the world&#8217;s protector, he to Atharvan,<br \/>\nhis eldest son, declared the God-knowledge in which all sciences have their<br \/>\nfoundation. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-2.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">2. The God-knowledge<br \/>\nby Brahma declared to Atharvan, Atharvan of old declared to Angir; he to<br \/>\nSatyavaha the Bharadwaja told it, the Bharadwaja to Angiras, both the higher and<br \/>\nthe lower knowledge. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-3.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">3. Shaunaka, the<br \/>\ngreat house-lord, came to Angiras in the due way of the disciple and asked of<br \/>\nhim, &quot;Lord, by knowing what does all this that is become known?&quot; <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-4.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">4. To him thus spoke<br \/>\nAngiras: Twofold is the knowledge that must be known of which the knowers of the<br \/>\nBrahman tell, the higher and the lower knowledge. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-5.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 269<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">5. Of which the<br \/>\nlower, the Rig-veda and the Yajur-veda, and the Sama-veda and the Atharva-veda,<br \/>\nchanting, ritual, grammar, etymological interpretation, and prosody and<br \/>\nastronomy. And then the higher by which is known the Immutable. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-6.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">6. That the<br \/>\ninvisible, that the unseizable, without connections, without hue, without eye or<br \/>\near, that which is without hands or feet, eternal, pervading, which is in all<br \/>\nthings and impalpable, that which is Imperishable, that which is the womb of<br \/>\ncreatures sages behold everywhere. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-7.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">7. As the spider<br \/>\nputs out and gathers in, as herbs spring up upon the earth, as hair of head and<br \/>\nbody grow from a living man, so here all is born from the Immutable. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-8.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">8. Brahman grows by<br \/>\nhis energy at work, and then from Him is Matter born, and out of Matter life,<br \/>\nand mind and truth and the worlds, and in works immortality. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-1-9.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">9. He who is the<br \/>\nOmniscient, the all-wise. He whose energy is all made of knowledge, from Him is<br \/>\nborn this that is Brahman here, this Name and Form and Matter. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 270<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><font size=\"4\">C<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">HAPTER<br \/>\n<\/span>O<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">NE&nbsp; <\/span>: S<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">ECTION<br \/>\n<\/span>II <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-1.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"84\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">1. This is That, the<br \/>\nTruth of things: works which the sages beheld in the Mantras<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b9<\/span><br \/>\nwere in the Treta<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b2<\/span><br \/>\nmanifoldly extended. Works do ye perform religiously with one passion for the<br \/>\nTruth; this is your road to the heaven of good deeds. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-2.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">2. When the fire of<br \/>\nthe sacrifice is kindled and the flame sways and quivers, then between the<br \/>\ndouble pourings of butter cast therein with faith thy offerings. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-3.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"84\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">3. For he whose<br \/>\naltar-fires are empty of the new-moon offering and the full-moon offering, and<br \/>\nthe offering of the rains and the offering of the first fruits, or unfed, or fed<br \/>\nwithout right ritual, or without guests or without the dues to the Vishwa-Devas,<br \/>\ndestroys his hope of all the seven worlds. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-4.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">4. Kali, the black,<br \/>\nKarali, the terrible, Manojava, thought-swift, Sulohita, blood-red,<br \/>\nSudhumravarna, smoke-hued, Sphulingini, scattering sparks, Vishwaruchi, the<br \/>\nall-beautiful <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b9The inspired verses of the<br \/>\nVeda.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u00b2The second of the four ages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 271<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">these are the seven<br \/>\nswaying tongues of the fire. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-5.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><i>5.<\/i> He who in<br \/>\nthese when they are blazing bright performs the rites, in their due season, him<br \/>\nhis fires of sacrifice take and they lead him, these rays of the sun, there<br \/>\nwhere the Over-lord of the Gods is the Inhabitant on high. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-6.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">6. &quot;Come with us&quot;,<br \/>\n&quot;Come with us&quot;, they cry to him, these luminous fires of sacrifice and they bear<br \/>\nhim by the rays of the sun speaking to him pleasant words of sweetness, doing<br \/>\nhim homage, &quot;This is your holy world of Brahman and the heaven of your<br \/>\nrighteousness.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-7.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">7. But frail are the<br \/>\nships of sacrifice, frail these forms of sacrifice, all the eighteen of them, in<br \/>\nwhich are declared the lower works; fools are they who hail them as the highest<br \/>\ngood and they come yet again to this world of age and death. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-8.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">8. They who dwell<br \/>\nshut within the ignorance and they hold themselves for learned men thinking,<br \/>\n&quot;We, even we are the wise and the sages&quot; \u2014 fools are they and they wander around<br \/>\nbeaten and stumbling like blind men led by the blind. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-9.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 272<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">9<i>.<\/i> They dwell<br \/>\nin many bonds of the Ignorance, children thinking, &quot;We have achieved our aim of<br \/>\nParadise&quot;; for when the men of works are held by their affections, and arrive<br \/>\nnot at the Knowledge, then they are overtaken by anguish, then their Paradise<br \/>\nwastes by enjoying and they fall from their heavens. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-10.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"38\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">10. Minds bewildered<br \/>\nwho hold the oblation offered and the well dug for the greatest righteousness<br \/>\nand know not any other highest good, on the back of heaven they enjoy the world<br \/>\nwon by their righteousness and enter again this or even a lower world. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-11.jpg\" width=\"363\" height=\"38\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">11. But they who in<br \/>\nthe forest follow after faith and self-discipline, calm and full of knowledge,<br \/>\nliving upon alms, cast from them the dust of their passions, and through the<br \/>\ngate of the Sun they pass on there where is the Immortal, the Spirit, the Self<br \/>\nundecaying and imperishable. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-12.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"38\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">12. The seeker of<br \/>\nthe Brahman, having put to the test the worlds piled up by works, arrives at<br \/>\nworld-distaste, for<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b9<\/span> not<br \/>\nby work done is reached He who is Uncreated. For the knowledge of That, let him<br \/>\napproach, fuel in hand, a Guru, one who is learned in the Veda and is devoted to<br \/>\ncontemplation of the Brahman. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\">\n<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b9Or, He, the uncreated, lives<br \/>\nnot by that which is made. Literally, not by the made (or, by that which is<br \/>\ndone) the Unmade (He who is uncreated). <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 273<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-1sec-2-13.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">13. To him because<br \/>\nhe has taken entire refuge with him, with a heart tranquillised and a spirit at<br \/>\npeace, that man of knowledge declares in its principles the science of the<br \/>\nBrahman by which one comes to know the Immutable Spirit, the True and Real. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 274<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><font size=\"4\">C<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">HAPTER<br \/>\n<\/span>T<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">WO&nbsp; <\/span>: S<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">ECTION&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>I <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-1.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"88\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">1. This is That, the<br \/>\nTruth of things: as from one high-kindled fire thousands of different sparks are<br \/>\nborn and all have the same form of fire, so, O fair son, from the immutable<br \/>\nmanifold becomings are born and even into that they depart. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-2.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">2. He, the divine,<br \/>\nthe formless Spirit, even He is the outward and the inward and he the Unborn; He<br \/>\nis beyond life, beyond mind, luminous. Supreme beyond the immutable. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-3.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">3. Life and mind and<br \/>\nthe senses are born from Him and the sky, and the wind, and light, and the<br \/>\nwaters and earth upholding all that is. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-4.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">4. Fire is the head<br \/>\nof Him and His eyes are the Sun and Moon, the quarters His organs of hearing and<br \/>\nthe revealed Vedas are his voice, air is His breath, the universe is His heart,<br \/>\nEarth lies at His feet.<b> <\/b>He is the inner Self in all beings.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-5.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 275<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><i>5.<\/i> From Him<br \/>\nis fire, of which the Sun is the fuel, then rain from the Soma, herbs upon the<br \/>\nearth, and the male casts his seed into woman: thus are these many peoples born<br \/>\nfrom the Spirit. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-6.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">6. From Him are the<br \/>\nhymns of the Rig-veda, the Sama and the Yajur, initiation, and all sacrifices<br \/>\nand works of sacrifice, and dues given, the year and the giver of the sacrifice<br \/>\nand the worlds, on which the moon shines and the sun. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-7.jpg\" width=\"348\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">7. And from Him have<br \/>\nissued many gods, and demi-gods and men and beasts and birds, the main breath<br \/>\nand downward breath, and rice and barley, and askesis and faith and Truth, and<br \/>\nchastity and rule of right practice. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-8.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">8. The seven breaths<br \/>\nare born from Him and the seven lights and kinds of fuel and the seven oblations<br \/>\nand these seven worlds in which move the life-breaths set within with the secret<br \/>\nheart for their dwelling-place, seven and seven. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-9.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"46\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">9. From Him are the<br \/>\noceans and all these mountains and from Him flow rivers of all forms, and from<br \/>\nHim are all plants, and sensible delight which makes the soul to abide with the<br \/>\nmaterial elements. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 276<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-1-10.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"61\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">10. The Spirit is<br \/>\nall this universe; he is works and askesis and the Brahman, supreme and<br \/>\nimmortal. O fair son, he who knows this hidden in the secret heart, scatters<br \/>\neven here in this world the knot of the Ignorance. <\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 277<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><font size=\"4\">C<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">HAPTER<br \/>\n<\/span>T<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">WO&nbsp; <\/span>: S<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">ECTION&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>II <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-1.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">1. Manifested, it is<br \/>\nhere set close within, moving in the secret heart, this is the mighty foundation<br \/>\nand into it is consigned all that moves and breathes and sees. This that is that<br \/>\ngreat foundation here, know, as the Is and Is-not, the supremely desirable,<br \/>\ngreatest and the Most High, beyond the knowledge of creatures. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-2.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">2<i>.<\/i> That which<br \/>\nis the Luminous, that which is smaller than the atoms, that in which are set the<br \/>\nworlds and their peoples, That is This, \u2014 it is Brahman immutable: life is That,<br \/>\nit is speech and mind. That is This, the True and Real, it is That which is<br \/>\nimmortal: it is into That that thou must pierce, 0 fair son, into That<br \/>\npenetrate. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-3.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">3. Take up the bow<br \/>\nof the Upanishad, that mighty weapon, set to it an arrow sharpened by adoration,<br \/>\ndraw the bow with a heart wholly devoted to the contemplation of That, and 0<br \/>\nfair son, penetrate into That as thy target, even into the Immutable. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-4.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 278<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">4. OM is the bow and<br \/>\nthe soul is the arrow, and That, even the Brahman, is spoken of as the target.<br \/>\nThat must be pierced with an unfaltering aim; one must be absorbed into That as<br \/>\nan arrow is lost in its target. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-5.jpg\" width=\"371\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">5. He in whom are<br \/>\ninwoven heaven and earth and the mid-region, and mind with all the<br \/>\nlife-currents, Him know to be the one Self; other words put away from you: this<br \/>\nis the bridge to immortality. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-6.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">6. Where the nerves<br \/>\nare brought close together like the spokes in the nave of a chariot-wheel, this<br \/>\nis He that moves within, \u2014 there is<b> <\/b>He manifoldly born. Meditate on the<br \/>\nSelf as OM and happy be your passage to the other shore beyond the darkness. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-7.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">7. The Omniscient,<br \/>\nthe All-wise, whose is this might and majesty upon the earth, is this self<br \/>\nenthroned in the Divine city of the Brahman, in his ethereal heaven. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-8.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"84\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">8. A mental being,<br \/>\nleader of the life and the body, has set a heart in matter, in matter he has<br \/>\ntaken his firm foundation. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 279<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">By its knowing the wise see everywhere<br \/>\naround them That which shines in its effulgence, a shape of Bliss and Immortal.\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-9.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">9. The knot of the<br \/>\nheart strings is rent, cut away are all doubts, and a man&#8217;s works are spent and<br \/>\nperish, when is seen That which is at once the being below and the Supreme. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-10.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">10. In a supreme<br \/>\ngolden sheath the Brahman lies, stainless, without parts. A Splendour is That,<br \/>\nIt is the Light of Lights, It is That which the self-knowers know. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-11.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">11. There the sun<br \/>\nshines not and the moon has no splendour and the stars are blind; there these<br \/>\nlightnings flash not, how then shall burn this earthly fire ? All that shines is<br \/>\nbut the shadow of his shining; all this universe is effulgent with his light.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-2-sec-2-12.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">12. All this is<br \/>\nBrahman immortal, naught else; Brahman is in front of us. Brahman behind us, and<br \/>\nto the south of us and to the north of us\u00b9 and below us and above us; it<br \/>\nstretches everywhere. All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent universe.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\u00b9<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">Or,<br \/>\nto the right and the left of us <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 280<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><font size=\"4\">C<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">HAPTER<br \/>\n<\/span>T<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">HREE&nbsp; <\/span>: S<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">ECTION&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>I <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-1.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">1. Two birds,<br \/>\nbeautiful of wing, close companions, cling to one common tree: of the two one<br \/>\neats the sweet fruit of the tree,<br \/>\nthe other eats not but watches his fellow. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-2.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">2. The soul is the<br \/>\nbird that sits immersed on the one common tree; but because he is not lord he is<br \/>\nbewildered and has sorrow. But when he sees that other who is the Lord and<br \/>\nbeloved, he knows that all is His greatness and his sorrow passes away from him.\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-3.jpg\" width=\"348\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">3. When, a seer, he<br \/>\nsees the Golden-hued, the maker, the Lord, the Spirit who is the source of<br \/>\nBrahman\u00b9, then he becomes the knower and shakes from his wings sin and virtue;<br \/>\npure of all stain he reaches the supreme identity.\u00b2 <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-4.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"88\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">4. This is the life<br \/>\nin things that shines manifested by all these beings; a man of knowledge coming<br \/>\nwholly to know this, draws back from creeds and too much disputings. In the <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\">\u00b9<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt\">Or,<br \/>\nwhose source is Brahman; Shankara admits the other meaning as an alternative,<br \/>\nbut explains it as &#8216;the source of the lower Brahman&#8217;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\">\u00b2<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt\">Or,<br \/>\npure of all staining tinge he reaches to a supreme equality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 281<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Self his delight, at<br \/>\nplay in the Self, doing works, \u2014 the best is he among the knowers of the<br \/>\nEternal. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-5.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"84\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">5. The Self can<br \/>\nalways be won by truth, by self-discipline, by integral knowledge, by a life of<br \/>\npurity, \u2014 this Self that is in the inner body, radiant, made all of light whom,<br \/>\nby the perishing of their blemishes, the doers of askesis behold. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-6.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">6. It is Truth that<br \/>\nconquers and not falsehood; by Truth was stretched out the path of the journey<br \/>\nof the gods, by which the sages winning their desire ascend there where Truth<br \/>\nhas its Supreme abode. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-7.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">7. Vast is That,<br \/>\ndivine, its form unthinkable; it shines out subtler than the subtle,1 very far<br \/>\nand farther than farness, it is here close to us, for those who have vision it<br \/>\nis even here in this world; it is here, hidden in the secret heart. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-8.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">8. Eye cannot seize,<br \/>\nspeech cannot grasp Him, nor these other godheads; not by austerity can he be<br \/>\nheld nor by works: only when the inner being is purified by a glad serenity of\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\">\n<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">&#8216; Or, minuter than the minute,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 282<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">knowledge, then indeed, meditating, one<br \/>\nbeholds the Spirit indivisible. <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-9.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">9. This self is<br \/>\nsubtle and has to be known by a thought-mind into which the life-force has made<br \/>\nits fivefold entry: all the conscious heart of creatures is shot through and<br \/>\ninwoven with the currents of the life-force and only when it is purified can<br \/>\nthis Self manifest its power<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b9<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-1-10.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"84\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">10. Whatever world<br \/>\nthe man whose inner being is purified sheds the light of his mind upon, and<br \/>\nwhatsoever desires he cherishes, that world he takes by conquest, and those<br \/>\ndesires. Then, let whosoever seeks for success and well-being approach with<br \/>\nhomage a self-knower. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\">\n<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\">\u00b9The verb <i>vibhavati<\/i> seems<br \/>\nhere to have a complex sense and to mean, &#8216;to manifest its full power and<br \/>\npervading presence&#8217;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 283<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><font size=\"4\">C<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">hapter<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"grame\"><span>T<\/span><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">hree&nbsp;<br \/>\n:<\/span><\/span> <span>s<\/span><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">ection&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>II<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-1.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">1.&nbsp; He knows this supreme Brahman as the highest abiding place in which<br \/>\nshines out, inset, the radiant world. The wise <span class=\"grame\">who<\/span><br \/>\nare without desire and worship the Spirit pass beyond this sperm<sup><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b9<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-2.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">2.&nbsp; He who cherishes desires and his mind dwells with his longings, is by<br \/>\nhis desires born again wherever they lead him, but the man who has won all his<br \/>\ndesire<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b2<\/span> and has found his soul, for him even here, in<br \/>\nthis world vanish away all desires.<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-3.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><span class=\"grame\">3. This Self is not won by exegesis, nor by<br \/>\nbrain-power, nor by much learning of Scripture.<\/span> Only by him whom<br \/>\n<span class=\"grame\">It<\/span> chooses can it be won; to him this Self unveils<br \/>\nits own body.<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-4.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"45\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><span class=\"grame\">4.&nbsp; This Self cannot be won by any who is without<br \/>\nstrength, nor with error in the seeking, nor by an <\/span><span class=\"spelle\"><br \/>\naskesis<\/span><span class=\"grame\"> without the true mark: but when a man of<br \/>\nknowledge strives by these means his Self enters into Brahman, his abiding<br \/>\nplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"fr2\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\"><sup><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b9<\/span><\/sup><span class=\"spelle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt\">Shankara<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt\"><br \/>\ntakes it so in the sense of semen virile, which is the cause of birth into the<br \/>\ncosmos. But it is possible that it means rather &#8216;pass beyond this brilliant<br \/>\nuniverse&#8217;, the radiant world which has just been spoken of, to the greater Light<br \/>\nwhich is its abiding place and source, the supreme Brahman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"fr2\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%;margin-bottom:0\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b2<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt\">Or,<br \/>\nfinished with desires<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"fr2\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 125%\"><br \/>\nPage \u2013 284<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-5.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">5.&nbsp; Attaining<br \/>\nto him, seers glad with fullness of knowledge, perfected in the self, all<br \/>\npassions cast from them, tranquillised, \u2014 these, the wise, come to the<br \/>\nall-pervading from every side, and, uniting <span class=\"grame\">themselves<\/span><br \/>\nwith him enter utterly the All.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-6.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">6. Doers of<br \/>\n<span class=\"spelle\">askesis<\/span> who have made sure of the aim<sup>\u00b9<\/sup> of<br \/>\nthe whole-knowledge of Vedanta, the inner being purified by the Yoga of<br \/>\nrenunciation, all in the hour of their last end passing beyond death are<br \/>\nreleased into the worlds of the Brahman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-7.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">7. The fifteen<br \/>\nparts return into their foundations, and all the gods pass into their proper<br \/>\ngodheads, works and the Self <span class=\"grame\">of&nbsp;Knowledge<\/span>, \u2014 all<br \/>\nbecome one in the Supreme and Imperishable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-8.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">8. As rivers in<br \/>\ntheir flowing reach their home<sup>\u00b2<\/sup> in the ocean and cast off their names<br \/>\nand forms, even so one who knows <span class=\"grame\">is&nbsp;delivered<\/span> from<br \/>\nname and form and reaches the Supreme beyond the Most High, even the Divine<br \/>\nPerson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-9.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00b9<\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;line-height: 125%\">Or,<br \/>\nmeaning <sup>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/sup><\/span><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp; \u00b2<\/span><\/sup><span class=\"grame\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;line-height: 125%\">Or<\/span><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;line-height: 125%\">,<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;line-height: 125%\"><br \/>\ncome to their end<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;line-height: 125%;font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"fr2\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 125%\">Page<br \/>\n\u2013 285<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-9a.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">9. He, verily,<br \/>\nwho knows that Supreme Brahman becomes himself Brahman; in his lineage none is<br \/>\nborn who knows not the Brahman. He crosses beyond sorrow, he crosses beyond sin,<br \/>\n<span class=\"grame\">he<\/span> is delivered from the knotted cord of the secret<br \/>\nheart and becomes immortal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-10.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"99\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">10. This is<br \/>\n<span class=\"grame\">That<\/span> declared by the Rig-<span class=\"spelle\">veda<\/span>.<br \/>\nDoers of works, versed in the Veda, men absorbed in the Brahman, who putting<br \/>\ntheir faith in the sole-seer <span class=\"grame\">offer<\/span> themselves to him<br \/>\nsacrifice, \u2014 to them one should speak this Brahman-Knowledge, men by whom the<br \/>\nVow of the Head has been done according to the rite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\">\n    <span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><i><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;line-height: 125%\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/sup><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 8.0pt;line-height: 125%;font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/sup><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-01_SABCL\/-12_The Upanishad_Volume-12\/_images\/mundaka-ch-3-sec-2-11.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">11. This is<br \/>\n<span class=\"grame\">That<\/span>, the Truth of things which the seer<br \/>\n<span class=\"spelle\">Angiras<\/span> spoke of old. This none learns who has not<br \/>\nperformed the Vow of the Head. Salutation to the seers supreme! Salutation to<br \/>\nthe seers supreme!<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"fr2\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 125%\">Page<br \/>\n\u2013 286<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNDAKA UPANISHAD &nbsp; CHAPTER ONE&nbsp; : SECTION&nbsp; I &nbsp; 1. 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