Isa Upanisad - Yajur Veda Australasia - Resources

10intellectual pride and spiritual blindness. The knowledge of discursive reason is essential,but it has to be transcended into the life of spirit. Avidya must be transcended in Vidya.Avidya has its place. Without it there is no individual, no bondage, no liberation.Avidya meaning the normal run of life based upon the procreative institution of marriage is treated as ameans of preventing physical discontinuity, and vidya meaning the leading of chaste life, the practice ofausterities and the pursuit of higher knowledge as means of realising the immortality of soul.' B. M. Barua:Ceylon Lectures (1945), P. 201 n.THE MANIFEST AND THE UNMANIFESTandhaµ tama¿ praviçanti ye 'sambhûtim upåsate |tato bhûya iva te tamo ye u sambhûtyåµ ratå¿ || 12 ||andhaµ — blind; tama¿ — darkness; praviçanti — (they) enter; ye — who;asambhûtim — unmanifest; upåsate — worship; tata¿ — than that; bhûya¿ —greater; iva — as it were; te — they; tama¿ — darkness; ye — who; u —verily; sambhûtyåµ — in the manifest; ratå¿ — devoted; engaged.12. Into blinding darkness enter those who worship the unmanifest and intostill greater darkness, as it were, those who delight in the manifest.asambhuti: (1) the unmanifest, the undifferentiated Prakrti. We get our rewards accordingto our beliefs.asambhuti: (2) non-becoming: Those who do not believe in re-birth may be referred to.sambhuti: the manifest, according to Sankara the lord of the phenomenal world, karyabrahmahiranya-garbha. It is sometimes said that asambhuti means that the world has nocreator, that it is produced, preserved and destroyed by its own nature. Those who holdsuch a view are the naturalists. See B.G. 16: 8, 9, 20.The Supreme is neither of these in the sense that he is not also the other. If weidentify the Supreme with the manifest, it would be pantheism in the sense that the wholeof the Divine nature finds expression in the manifested world, leaving nothing over, andit is a wrong view. Again, if the world of becoming were not there, it would all disappearin what wouid seem a world of undifferenced abstraction. Within the depths of the spiritthere is unfolded before us the drama of God's dealings with man and man's with God.Unity and multiplicity are both aspects.of the Supreme and therefore the nature of theSupreme is said to be inconceivable.anyad eva åhu¿ sambhavåt anyad åhur asambhavåt |iti çuçruma dhîrå±åµ ye nas tad vicacakßire || 13 ||anyat — different; eva — definitely; åhu¿ — they say; sambhavåt — from themanifest; anyat — different; åhu¿ — they say; asambhavåt — from the unmanifest;iti — thus; çuçruma — we have heard; dhîrå±åµ — of the wise; ye — who; na¿— to us; tat — that; vicacakßire — explained.