What is in Upanishadas

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MUNDAKOPANISHADA<br>=================<br><br>(A

perview of Mundak Upanishada)<br><br>=> Prayer to God

to keep the body and sense unimparied and health, so

that one is enable to sing prasies unot HIM.<br>=>

There are 2 type of Vidyas (Knowledges) Para and Apara.

Apra Vidya is concerned with works and their fruits

while the para with the realization of the

God.<br><br>=> The priests and the sacrificers are like

perishable boats which sink down along with karma and its

fruits.<br><br>=> Approach the spiritual teacher with humility, if

you wish to realize the Brahman.<br><br>=> Souls

emanate from the Brahman, like sparks from fire. Yet the

plurality of souls is only a appearance due to Avidya.

There is only one Soul namely the Brahman.<br><br>=>

The phenomenal world is only a reminder to the

noumenal, the creation to the creator. That which is beyond

causation should be the object of worship and

meditation.<br><br>=> Treating AUM as the bow and the soul as the

arrow, pierce the target of the Brahman.<br><br>=>

Like spokes in a wheel, all things are fixed in the

Atman (Soul). None, not even Karma, can ever transgress

His command.<br><br>=> The moment the identity is

realized between the Jiva (Individual soul) and the

Brahman, desires come to an end, doubts are resolved, and

karma becomes ineffective. Brhman shines as dazzling

gold on all sides of the mystic. The mysteic loves and

plays with Atman.<br><br>=> The Jiva and the Brahman

are as if two birds, living on the same perishable

tree of the body, one enjoys and the other looks

on.<br><br>=> Truth penance, meditation, freedom from anger and

desires, are the indespensable conditions of

God-realization. Worship of the saints is as effective as worship

of God.<br><br>=> Unless God himself chooses His

devotee, no human efforts will be successful in realizing

HIM.<br><br>=> Unlike gradual liberation, absolute liberation

means the dissolution of name and form in the

Brahman.<br><br>=> The knower of the Brahman becomes the Self of

all<br><br>Hari AUM