Saturday, September 10, 2022

KATHOPNISHADA CHAPTER 6 SHLOKA 13

                                                               अस्तीत्येवोपलब्धव्य -

                                                               स्तत्त्वभावेन चोभयोः । 

                                                              अस्तीत्येवोपलब्धस्य

                                                              तत्त्वभावः प्रसीदति ॥ १3

                                                     ASTI  ITI EVA UPALABDHVYAS

                                                   TATVA  BHAVEN  CHA UBHAYOH|

                                                    ASTI  ITI  EVA  UPALABDHASYA

                                                    TATVA  BHAVAH  PRASIDATI ||13

HE SHOULD BE REALISED AS EXISTENT AND THEN HIS TRANSDENTAL NATURE.

WHEN HE IS UNDERSTOOD AS EXISTENET THEN HIS REAL NATURE BECOMES CLEAR||13

      This Shloka and the last on is rather difficult one to understand. We have to know the REAL NATURE of the SELF or Brahman. But the ordinary instruments of understanding the external world are useless, but without them we cannot get to it. We have to understand with our MIND and Intellect but theses are not SELF or BRAHMAN  and the BRAHMAN is beyond that . So we are told here that we have to first understand the BRAHMAN as EXISTEANCE . We all are aware of our EXISTANCE  and that is not mind or intelligence or physical body . Something that we KNOW as ME is nothing other that the SELF . But we mistake the physical body at times as ME. (I have headaches or my leg is hurting or I have heart attack etc. ) Sometimes we refer this ME as Mind ( I am not happy I am angry  etc)And sometimes we refer Intellect as ME( I am not as sharp as i used to be . I am getting dementia )

   But that is not SELF or BRAHMAN .So once we know that our EXISTANCE is the BRAHMAN, then we have to realize that IT IS TRANSDENTAL . Once we know that HIS real nature becomes clear. In many of the Religious scriptures,we are told about the BRAHMAN as - it s not this and it is not that  and not IT IS THIS OR THAT .


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