Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 22, 2021. 8:42. PM. Chapter - I : SECOND BRAHMANA:  THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, this peculiarity, whatever we may call it, whatever designation may be applied to it, is the cause of the distinction of the effect from the cause, and that becomes the first breeding ground for the further multifarious division we see in the form of this vast creation. The moment this creation begins, the moment there is the potency released for the external expression of what was hiddenly present in the cause, there is a catastrophic change taking place. And, this is the urge for creation, the urge for diversity, multiplicity, colour, sound, activity, etc.  This characteristic of self-division is called M?tyu (death principle), that which destroys the indivisible, that which isolates the one from the other, that which d

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 12, 2021. 06:07. PM. Chapter - I : SECOND BRAHMANA:  THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE- 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 which cannot be easily analysed, unless we

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 05, 2021. 07:29. PM. Chapter - I : SECOND BRAHMANA:  THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE- 1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now follow some very difficult symbols of the Upani?had. 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; and what it is that we see with our eyes. Where are we l