Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, January 29, 2021. 06:55. AM. Chapter I : SECOND BRAHMANA: THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-2. Post-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The devouring death principle is the element of hunger which grasps objects. Here, hunger does not mean merely the appetite for edible dishes like rice, barley, etc. Here is a metaphysical principle. Here, the hunger is a cosmic element. It is not an operation of the biological spleen or the liver or the stomach of the individual. What is here intended is the principle of grasping. The object can be regarded as the hunger of the soul of the individual. There was nothing except the desire to grasp the object, if at all one could say that anything was there. A?an?yay? is the hunger of the individual to grasp, absorb, contact, abolish and devour the object. Now, this is a condition whi

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, January 25, 2021. 04:04. PM. Chapter I : SECOND BRAHMANA: THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE Post-1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now follow some very difficult symbols of the Upaniṣhad. Literally, they cannot be easily grasped. Even the Sanskrit is not classical; it is highly archaic. It is a Vedic language. And the idea conveyed through this most difficult style is still more difficult, so that one cannot easily make out the sense of some passages, unless we deeply think over the words as well as the meanings that are hidden between the lines. An unphilosophical mind may not be able to understand the hidden meaning of these symbols, and perhaps it is the case with all symbols; they cannot be understood literally. The symbolic description here is one of the process of creation. How things come; an