Mandukya_Upanishad

adiance of peace emanating from oneself. The meditatorbecomes a spontaneous peace-maker. His existence itself isa peace-making. He need not say anything in the world. Inhis presence, conflict cannot arise, and turmoil ceases,vexations and emotional tensions come to a close onaccount of meditation practised thus as an equalising factorof consciousness between waking and deep sleep throughthe syllable ‘U’ of ukāra, says the Upanishad. Not only that;nāsyābrahmavit kule bhavati – so purifying is thismeditation, such an effect it has upon the meditator and allthose connected with him, that in his family no one whodoes not know Brahman can be born. He will have onlyBrahmavids in his family on account of the effect of thismeditation. His blood gets purified so much, the very cellsof his body are charged with this super-physical knowledgeto such an extent, that an idiot child cannot be born to him.What is a child after all? It is you, yourself, reborn. Ātmā vaiputranāmā asi: You yourself are reborn, as your child, insome other form; and your knowledge will becommunicated to the child, and because of this meditation,when it takes effect, you become flooded with knowledge;you become knowledge itself. Rather, it is not your bodythat is reborn; it is knowledge that is reborn. You do notmerely pass on the chromosomes or blood-cells in the birthof a child, but you pass knowledge. You get inundated withspiritual knowledge to such an extent that you cease to he amere physical body. The physical body vibrates as a body ofknowledge. Such is the power of this knowledge. The familyis nothing but the generation of your children, which, theUpanishad says, should be one of knowledge alone.116