let the soul fly into the heights of the empyrean, or comedown to the nether regions, it is within the purview ofĪsvara’s knowledge and is contained in the Being of Īsvara.Whatever be the freedom of the kite to fly to the skies, aslong as it is tied with a rope to a peg on the earth, itsmovements are restricted. Our freedom seems to be withinthe radius of the operation of our prārabdha-karma, andbeyond that limit we cannot go. We have freedom, butlimited freedom, not absolute freedom. It is the freedomthat a mother gives to her child. The child has a freedom,but within limits; beyond that the mother will not make anyallowance. Īsvara gives us freedom in the sense that there iscapacity in us to understand, ratiocinate and judgesituations, but all these judgments are determined by thelaw of Īsvara, and we cannot overrule that law; we have toabide by that law. And, if our egoism so acts, occasionally,as to violate this law of Īsvara, then there is a reaction setup, and this reaction is what is called the law of karma.Karma that binds is nothing but the effect of the violation ofthe law of Īsvara, and abidance by His Will is unselfishkarma. This is karma-yoga. When we abide by His Will,follow His law, and then act, we perform karma-yoga. Butwhen we violate His Will and act according to the dictatesof the ego, we perform a binding karma. Īsvara, therefore, iseverything, the coming in and the going out of all things, ofall beings. Such is the glory, the magnificence and thegreatness of God, Īsvara, whose integral parts, organiclimbs, are the jīvas, and all things, animate or inanimate.The distinction of living and non-living beings, theinorganic and the organic, do not obtain in the realm of96
Īsvara’s Being. For Him, it is all Consciousness. There is nojadatva, or no dead matter, for Īsvara, because it is HisBeing. He permeates all things; He is antaryāmin. This isthe Causal Condition of the universe, corresponding towhich there is the causal experience of the jīva, calledprājña. The individual causal state is prājña; the UniversalCausal State is Īsvara. The individual subtle state is taijasa;the Cosmic Subtle State is Hiraṇyagarbha. The individualgross state is Viśva; the Cosmic Gross State is Vaiśvānara, orVirāt. Īsvara is often understood as that Total Being, inwhich all the cosmic states are united.97
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THE MĀNDŪKYAUPANISHADSWAMI KRISHN
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CONTENTSPublishers’ Preface ...
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INTRODUCTIONThe theme of the Manduk
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ceases to agitate the mind any more
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INVOCATION AND VERSESOm! Bhadram ka
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svapna-sthāno’ntaḥ-prajñaḥ
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8. This identical Ātman, or Self,
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THE PRANAVA OR OMKARAThe Vedas, in
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and rūpa, name as well as form. It
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Now, we come from what we call Īsv
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and to achieve this by a direct met
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structure and the glory of Om. With
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desire persisting, it would only po
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magnificence of Om, but how are we
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experience a thrill, as if an elect
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THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ABSOLUTEThe
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vai tat. The reconciliation of “t
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yaccānyat trikālātitam tadapyomk
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The ultimate longing of all aspirin
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to the realisation of asti-bhāti-p
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structural difference is an effect
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self is the false self, not the rea
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