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 3.2.11
तदेतत्सत्यमृषिरङ्गिराः पुरोवाच नैतदचीर्णव्रतोऽधीते ।
नमः परमऋषिभ्यो नमः परमऋषिभ्यः ॥ ११ ॥tadetatsatyamṛṣiraṅgirāḥ purovāca naitadacīrṇavrato'dhīte |
namaḥ paramaṛṣibhyo namaḥ paramaṛṣibhyaḥ || 11 ||11. This external purusha did the seer Angiras teach in ancient times; none by whom the vow is not observed studies this; prostration to the great sages, prostration to the great sages.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—This undecaying and true purusha did the seer, known as Angiras, teach in ancient days to Saunaka who had duly approached him and questioned him (about this). The meaning is that, similarly, any other also should teach the same to one who longs for bliss and seeks emancipation and who with that end in view has duly approached the preceptor. This knowledge in the form of a book, no one who has not observed the vow, studies; for it is knowledge, only in those who observe the vow, that bears fruit. Thus ends the knowledge of Brahman which has been handed down from Brahma and the rest from preceptor to disciple. Prostration to those sages, Brahma and the rest, who have directly seen the Brahman and realised him. Prostration again to them; the repetition is both to indicate great solicitude and the fact that the Mundakopanishad here ends.
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॥ इति मुण्डकोपनिषदि तृतीयमुण्डके द्वितीयः खण्डः ॥
|| iti muṇḍakopaniṣadi tṛtīyamuṇḍake dvitīyaḥ khaṇḍaḥ ||
Here ends the Second Part of
the Third Mundaka.
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॥ इत्यथर्ववेदीय मुण्डकोपनिषत्समाप्ता ॥
|| ityatharvavedīya muṇḍakopaniṣatsamāptā ||
Here ends the Mundaka Upanishad of Atharva Veda.
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