Mundaka Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary
by S. Sitarama Sastri | 1905 | 19,662 words
The Mundaka Upanishad is a collection of philosophical poems used to teach meditation and spiritual knowledge regarding the true nature of Brahma and the Self (Atman). It is composed of the three main parts (mundakas): 1) The first of three parts expounds the science of higher and lower knowledge. 2) The second part describes the true nature of t...
Verse 3.2.5
संप्राप्यैनमृषयो ज्ञानतृप्ताः कृतात्मानो वीतरागाः प्रशान्ताः ।
ते सर्वगं सर्वतः प्राप्यधीरा युक्तात्मानः सर्वमेवाविशन्ति ॥ ५ ॥saṃprāpyainamṛṣayo jñānatṛptāḥ kṛtātmāno vītarāgāḥ praśāntāḥ |
te sarvagaṃ sarvataḥ prāpyadhīrā yuktātmānaḥ sarvamevāviśanti || 5 ||5. Having attained Him, the seers content with their knowledge, their purpose accomplished, free from all desire, and with full composure, having attained the all-pervading Atman on all sides, ever concentrated in their minds, enter into everything.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—How they enter into Brahman is explained. Having known him well, the seers content with that knowledge and not by any external means of delight tending to the growth of their body, their Atman having become one with the Paramatman, free from the fault of desire, etc., their senses subdued, having attained him all pervading like the akas on all sides, i.e., not in any particular place limited by conditions (what then do they attain? The Brahman itself, one and without a second as their own Atman), being discerning and with concentrated minds enter into everything when their body falls, i.e., cast off all limitations imposed by ignorance, as the akas in the pot when the pot is broken. Thus do the Knowers of Brahman enter into Brahman abode.