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February 5 - March 25, 2023
13 Fire is not seen until one firestick rubs Against another, though the fire remains Hidden in the firestick. So does the Lord Remain hidden in the body until He is revealed through the mystic mantram.
3 His eyes, mouths, arms, and feet are everywhere. Projecting the cosmos out of himself, He holds it all together.
The Mundaka is in that sense a bit like the Bible or Hamlet: in reading it you keep on running across treasures of poetry and wisdom you’ve heard before; they have entered public domain.
6 “The eye cannot see it; mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great And in the small, everlasting and changeless, The source of life.
8 Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men Proud of their vain learning go round and round Like the blind led by the blind.
2 As long as we think we are the ego, We feel attached and fall into sorrow. But realize that you are the Self, the Lord Of life, and you will be freed from sorrow. 3 When you realize that you are the Self, Supreme source of light, supreme source of love, You transcend the duality of life And enter into the unitive state.
1 AUM stands for the supreme Reality. It is a symbol for what was, what is, And what shall be. AUM represents also What lies beyond past, present, and future.
9 A stands for Vaishvanara. Those who know this, Through mastery of the senses, obtain The fruit of their desires and attain greatness. 10 U indicates Taijasa. Those who know this, By mastering even their dreams, become Established in wisdom. In their family Everyone leads the spiritual life. 11 M corresponds to Prajna. Those who know this, By stilling the mind, find their true stature And inspire everyone around to grow. 12 The mantram AUM stands for the supreme state Of turiya, without parts, beyond birth And death, symbol of everlasting joy. Those who know AUM as the Self become the
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6 That which makes the mind think but cannot be Thought by the mind, that is the Self indeed. This Self is not someone other than you.
10 Whatever the content of consciousness At the time of death, that is what unites us To prana, udana, and the Self, To be reborn in the plane we have earned.
2 The sage replied: “AUM is both immanent And transcendent. Through it one can attain The personal and the impersonal.”
6 “These three sounds when they are separated Cannot lead one beyond mortality; But when the whole mantram, a, u, and m, Indivisible, interdependent, Goes on reverberating in the mind, One is freed from fear, awake or asleep.
5 What is speech? The lower jaw and the upper, Words between, and the tongue connecting them.
Until we realize The unity of life, we live in fear. For the mere scholar who knows not the Self, His separateness becomes fear itself.
4 As the Self brooded Over the form, a mouth opened, as does An egg, giving forth speech and fire; nostrils Opened with the power of breathing the air; Eyes opened, giving rise to sight and sun; And ears opened to hear the sound in space. Skin appeared and from it hair; from hair came Plants and trees. The heart gushed forth; from the heart Came the mind, and from the mind came the moon.
To be united with the Lord of Love Is to be freed from all conditioning. This is the state of Self-realization, Far beyond the reach of words and thoughts.
Purusha manifests itself three ways: As outer, inner, and the supreme Self.
The supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned, moved, pierced, cut, nor dried. Beyond all attributes, the supreme Self Is the eternal witness, ever pure, Indivisible, and uncompounded, Far beyond the senses and the ego.
2 It is the mind that frees us or enslaves. Driven by the senses we become bound; Master of the senses we become free. 3 Those who seek freedom must master their senses.
9 He is immanent and transcendent. Realizing him, sages attain freedom 10 And declare there are no separate minds. They have but realized what they always are.
19 The milk of cows of any hue is white. The sages say that wisdom is the milk And the sacred scriptures are the cows.
He has renounced all selfish attachments And observes no rites and ceremonies. He has only minimum possessions, And lives his life for the welfare of all. 2 He has no staff nor tuft nor sacred thread. He faces heat and cold, pleasure and pain, Honor and dishonor with equal calm. He is not affected by calumny, Pride, jealousy, status, joy, or sorrow, Greed, anger, or infatuation, Excitement, egoism, or other goads; For he knows he is neither body nor mind.
4 For him the universe is his garment And the Lord not separate from himself. He offers no ancestral oblations; He praises nobody, blames nobody, Is never dependent on anyone.
