muntaka upanishad
muntaka upanishad
Muntakam means clean shaved head. This
upanishad is for the people who have sacrificed
the worldly life and searching for the eternal
wisdom. Hence this name.
This symbolizes determination. This is in atharvana
Vetha(fourth).
First chapter/First para
Ohm......the Brahma who has created this world
and saving us is the first. He teaches this to his son Atharvar. ...........1.1
Atharvar teaches this to Angirar. Angirar
teaches this to Sathyavahar.
Sathyavahar teaches this to Angirashar...1.2
Once Sownahar (who is living a comfortable
worldly life) asks Angirashar:
by knowing which we can come to know all. ............1.3.
Angirashar replies: There are two knowledges.
One is Abara which gives us worldly knowledge.
Another is Bara the knowledge which teaches
us the origin of all these knowledges, the supreme,
the knowledge of creating these sounds itself. ...... 1.4&5
(after all any one can get the knowledge of the world by
memorizing all these words, but they don't know the real
knowledge of the Brahmam (the super soul or the God)
That Brahmam is not visible, cannot be hold, has no birth,
no sect, no eyes, no ears, no hands, no legs, omnipotent,
omnipresent, lives in everything, perpetuate, visible
only to those who attained knowledge who research themselves
inside. ...........1.6
Like the spider which produce the net by its own
secretion and then demolish it by itself and like
the plants which comes from the seeds themselves
and like the hair grow in bodies this world is coming
from that Brahmam......1.7
By wisdom Brahmam grows. From that all foods come.
From that the body comes. From that the mind,
the senses, and the world (which has the illusion
of permanent) comes. From that the
desire and the actions and the results come....1.8
As Brahmam is the reason for all these developments
and as it is in everything, as all energy comes out
from that Brahmam these physical bodies of all lives,
all varieties of names, all worldly things
appears.. ............1.9
First chapter/second para
That truth (the Brahmam, the super soul or the God)
is described in vedhas in various forms with so many
differences and anomalies according to the
knowledge level or the individual taste of
those Gnanis(hermits). Search that real truth.
Follow it. That is the only way to know it. ............2.1
The rituals with fire are described. ......2.2to2.6
But all these rituals are very low as they have
done for materialistic benefits. Even though
they are elaborative they are lower. Their results
are not permanent. One who is doing these rituals
will again and again come to this world and
bonded. ............2.7
These people who are doing these rituals think
that they have highly attained knowledge,
powerful and suffer in this world like the blind
who are guided by another blind .........2.8
As they are immersed very much in ignorance
they imagined that they have high knowledge.
Due to deep desires for the worldly pleasures
they cannot come out of those cledges. ............2.9
(Even though the eagle flies in the sky very
high it's eyes are always in the dead animals in the earth...ashokha)
As they are immersed in desires, actions, their
results, they cannot come to know that there
is another thing higher than all these things. ........2.10
But one who controls his senses, attained peace,
fully attained knowledge earns for his minimum existence,
doing penance, purifies his mind removing all desires,
will reach the Brahma gnana( supreme knowledge.).....2.11
As the god cannot be reached by actions one must
leave all the worldly actions and surrender his
teacher totally. as the student has reached
the teacher properly with peace in mind, leaving
all the desires, actions behind, the teacher will
teach the real knowledge about the real god,
the real Brahmam, the real truth. ..........2.12&13
second chapter/first para.
This is the truth. Like sparks from a single fire
the entire world is coming out from a single Brahmam. ..........1.1
He is bright, no physical body, permanent in and out,
giving no births, no life, no mind, pure, above all
sounds and its derivatives. .........1.2
Life is coming from him. The mind, the senses,
the sky, the air, the fire, the water and all the
world are coming out from him. ........1.3
Fire is his head, moon and sun are his eyes, directions
are his ears, holy books are his tongues, air is
his breath, world is his mind, earth comes out from
his legs. He is the soul of all the worldly things ......1.4
(as all languages are created only by man all prayers
of all sounds cannot help to reach god.
silence is the language of god.) ..........ashokha
From him the fire (the root of sun) comes. From
fire the moon comes. From moon the rain (water)
comes. From water the plants, trees come. From
them the food comes. From food the energy for
the man comes. From the energy life comes.
So everything come from Brahmam. .....1.5
All vedhas, all teachings, all developments,
all wealths, all time measurements, the world
sanctified by sun and moon come. ............1.6
From him all races, human beings, animals, birds,
life force, all seeds, penances, devotion, truth,
virginity, rules come. ...........1.7
Seven life forces, seven fires, seven major fuels,
seven rituals, seven worlds, all seas, all mountains,
all rivers, all plantains, all basic life force of living
beings come from him. ......1.8&9
One who understand this and do the penance with
the feeling that penance is his duty, Brahmam is the
nectar, and the Brahmam is inside his heart will reach
the real stage of understanding the Brahmamandam will be
in bliss permanently.............1.10
second chapter second para
The Brahmam is inside the heart and controls
the five senses. from him the movements of the
body, the running of the breathing and all are
coming. now come to know the truth and the
non truth which is liked by all the living beings
and which is not reachable by the experiences
we get from the world and which has no
equivalents. .............2.1
Which is permanently self illuminated,
which is smaller than the atom itself. In
which the the entire world is settled, in which
all lives are settled that is the Brahmam.
That is the life force. That is the speech. That is
the mind. That is the truth. That is the elixir.
Aim at that. ......2.2
From the Upanishad take the greatest mantra
ohm, and chanting it with purity and devotion
and concentrate on it and tune it with your
whole mind. ........2.3
The Branavam is (ohm) the bow. Soul is the
arrow. Brahmam is the aim. No distraction.
Concentrate. .......2.4
To whom which the entire world and the mind
is tied must be known. Left all other words.
This is the only way to reach the eternal
stage. ..........2.5
The Brahmam (super soul) is tied with the nadis
(nervous system ) that are connected with the
heart like the spokes connected with the axis
of a wheel. It appears on various forms.
Meditate on that Brahmam with the mantra ohm
directly . Let success be yours in crossing the
darkness of ignorance. .......2.6
Eat the mango fruits directly without doing
research about the mango fruit, its leaves, how
many trees are there like that.
..........ramakrishna paramahamsa
If you want to drink water in a pond with a lesser
amount of water you must drink it without steering
the pond and making the water muddy.
..........ramakrishna paramahamsa.
One who can know everything easily, one who can
understand deeply, one who has made this world
easily will come into your heart easily.......2.7
He is in the form of mind, he is conducting the body
and the life, he is in your knowledge, he is in your
body. He is the reason for bliss inside.
One who attains the knowledge will understand
it by their experience. ............2.8
when the Brahmam has been seen the knot in
your heart will be loosened automatically,
doubts will be cleared themselves, all the sins
will be destroyed automatically. .....2.9
When the knowledge is brightened like gold
pure and omnipotent Brahmam will appear. It is
pure and light of all the lights.. One who realizes
that is the real realized. ..........2.10
There the sun will not have the brightness. Moon
and stars will have no brightness. Then how the
Agni (fire) will have brightness. As he is self illumined
everything is getting the light only from him. ......2.11
Indestructible that Brahmam occupies everywhere
east west north and south. ..........2.12