In Upanishad there is an important statement that lays down the course which one should accept in his journey to take him from the gross material temporal world to the subtle, superior, spiritual world, which reads as under : असतो मा सद् गमय ; तमसो मा मृत्युर गमय ; मृत्योर अमृतम् गमय. These exhortions are translated literally as - one should go from untruth to Truth ; from darkness to Light ; from death to Immortality.
The words contained in Upanishad are not simple to understand. Hey contain deep mystical truths within the overtly perceived meanings. Therefore the inner meaning should be listened with receptive mind, reflected and meditated to have clarity and benefit.
The words should understood by going to the source from which the word derives it's meaning.
असतो मा सद् गमय - सत् derives it meaning from the root अस् - to be, to exist, therefore सत्य, the Prime Existence. असत्, therefore is that which is not सत्, the Prime Existence. Therefore, the first exhortion should be understood as going from the gross temporal existences to the subtle, spiritual Existence. The world is manifestation by way of forms, symbols in which the essence of the Prime Existence is posited. The essence is not known because human beings attracted and bewildered with the attractions of the forms in the primordial world fail to experience the concealed mystical essence within those forms. The forms and the symbols, the marks and the instruments are for the purpose of
making known the Prime Existence, which being mysterious requires to be searched by the constituents as one would search the cow by following its foot marks, which acts as the symbols.
This enables the manifest world to recognise each other and transcend from the known forms as symbols, marks to reach out the Unknown essence, the Prime Existence.
तमसो मा सद् गमय - going away from obscurity, ignorance to clarity and Wisdom. When one knows the gross, temporal existence is not the unknown subtle, spiritual, the Prime Existence then one is on the right Path to Perfection.
This takes one to final objective in life and the purpose of spiritual Path - मृत्योर अमृतम् गमय - going from decay, degeneration and dissolution of the mortal existence to resurgence, rejuvenation and re-existence in the immortal Prime Existence.
Reflect on these words because they indicate the true Path to Perfection, becoming liberated from the shackles of the World of Appearnce and deliverance to the World of Real Prime Existence.
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The words contained in Upanishad are not simple to understand. Hey contain deep mystical truths within the overtly perceived meanings. Therefore the inner meaning should be listened with receptive mind, reflected and meditated to have clarity and benefit.
The words should understood by going to the source from which the word derives it's meaning.
असतो मा सद् गमय - सत् derives it meaning from the root अस् - to be, to exist, therefore सत्य, the Prime Existence. असत्, therefore is that which is not सत्, the Prime Existence. Therefore, the first exhortion should be understood as going from the gross temporal existences to the subtle, spiritual Existence. The world is manifestation by way of forms, symbols in which the essence of the Prime Existence is posited. The essence is not known because human beings attracted and bewildered with the attractions of the forms in the primordial world fail to experience the concealed mystical essence within those forms. The forms and the symbols, the marks and the instruments are for the purpose of
making known the Prime Existence, which being mysterious requires to be searched by the constituents as one would search the cow by following its foot marks, which acts as the symbols.
This enables the manifest world to recognise each other and transcend from the known forms as symbols, marks to reach out the Unknown essence, the Prime Existence.
तमसो मा सद् गमय - going away from obscurity, ignorance to clarity and Wisdom. When one knows the gross, temporal existence is not the unknown subtle, spiritual, the Prime Existence then one is on the right Path to Perfection.
This takes one to final objective in life and the purpose of spiritual Path - मृत्योर अमृतम् गमय - going from decay, degeneration and dissolution of the mortal existence to resurgence, rejuvenation and re-existence in the immortal Prime Existence.
Reflect on these words because they indicate the true Path to Perfection, becoming liberated from the shackles of the World of Appearnce and deliverance to the World of Real Prime Existence.
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