thath thvam asi chandhogya6.1

[Guest guest]

purusham soumya upathaapinam jnaathayah

paryupaasathe jaanaasi maam jaanaasi maam ithi

 

My dear, as the realtives of a man who is ill

surround him asking him"Do you know me? Do you know me?

 

 

thasya yaavath na vaangmanasi sampadhyathe

 

as long as his speech does not merge in the mind,

 

manaH praaNe praaNaH thejasi

 

the mind does not merge in prana and prana does not merge in

fire,

 

thejaH parasyaam dhevathaayaam thaavath jaanaathi.

 

And fire in the supreme deity, he is able to know

them.

 

aTha yadhaa asya vaang mansi sampdhyathe manaH praaNe praaNaH thejasi thejaH parasyaam

dhevathaayaam,

 

when his speech merges in his mind, mind in prana

and prana in fire and fire in the Supreme deity, he knows them not.

 

When the soul leaves the body first the speech

merges with the mind when the person dying could not speak but could think

without being able tto express himself. Next the mind merges with prana when he

becomes unconscious but is alive. When prana merges with the fire the man dies and

when the fire merges with the Supreme deity the fire leaves the body and he is dead. Here fire merging wth the

Absolute does not mean moksha though for a man of realization it means that. For

a worldly man the process is the same but he does not know that he has merged

with the infinite just as he is in the state of deep sleep because of

ignorance. Hence he is born again.

 

Sa ya

esho aNimaa ethath aathmyam idham sarvam

 

That Being (into which one merges in deep sleep) is

this Self which is subtle essence ( first cause) and all this world has it as

the inner self.

 

thath sathyam sa aathmaa

 

That is the truth. That is the Self.

 

thath thvam asi

svethaketho

 

That thou art Svethakethu

 

ithi

 

(Thus said the father.)

 

bhooya

eva maa bhagavan vijnaapayathu ithi

 

(The son said ) please sir, tell me again.

 

thaThaa soumya ithi hovacha

 

Saying " alright my dear boy," he spoke again.

 

The doubt that may arise in the mind that , if the

process is similar for a worldly man and a realized soul how does one returns

and the other attains salvation is cleared by the next passage.