Mandukya Upanishad (Madhva commentary)

by Srisa Chandra Vasu | 1909 | 15,464 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165

The English translation of the Mandukya Upanishad including the commentary of Madhva called the Bhasya. The describe the secret meaning of Om as the four names and aspects of the Lord (Vishva, Taijasa, Prajna and Turiya). This Upanishad is associated with the Atharva Veda and contains tweelve verses although Madhva reads the Gaudapada’s Karikas as ...

Peace chant

(a) O Devas of senses! May we (live long to) listen with our ears what is pleasant, and to see with our eyes what is beautiful. O Holy Ones! may we with firm limbs and bodies strong, extolling you always, attain the full term of our God-ordained life. (Rig Veda I. 89. 8.)

(b) May Viṣṇu the powerful, the ancient of fame, vouchsafe us prosperity, may Viṣṇu, the nourish er, the knower of all hearts, give us what is well for us, may Viṣṇu, the Lord of swift motions, the felly of whose wheel never wears out, be propitious to us, may Viṣṇu, the protector of the great ones, protect us too. (Rig. Veda I. 89. 6.)

Madhva’s salutation.

I always bow to Viṣṇu, the Supreme Goal, the enjoyer in the four-fold states, whose essential nature consists of full bliss, infinite wisdom and Omnipotence, who is eternal and changeless.

Madhva’s commentary called the Bhāṣya:

In this Upaniṣad, Varuṇa taking the form of a frog (maṇḍuka) praises Nārāyaṇa and His four-fold aspects. As says the Padma Purāṇa:—

“Varuṇa in the form of a frog praised the changeless Hari by the verses of the Upaniṣad beginning with Om: while meditating upon the God Nārāyaṇa with mind concentrated on Om.”

[Note.—Varuṇa is the Ṛṣi or Revealer of this Upaniṣad, the Lord Viṣṇu of the Four-form is the Devatā; the metre is anuṣṭup as a general rule, and the person qualified to study it is any one who seeks liberation.]

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