The Aitareya Upanishad - 10. Swami Krishnananda
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Friday, May 29, 2020.
Post-10.
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#Over and above what it has already told us about creation and the way in which we find ourselves in this world, the Upanishad goes into further detail of the reason why we are in this condition. Birth and death become a necessary result that follows from involvement in externality.
##What we call evolution in modern scientific language is the effort of the external to become the Universal. Every atom, everything living and non-living, is attempting to regain its universality. The whole world of externality is attempting to regain its universality. The world is craving for God, and every little atom of creation is crying for that which it has lost.
###The restlessness that we feel in this world, the kinds of agony of various types in which we are involved – all these are explicable only as a manifestation of a basic sorrow, which is what has followed as a consequence of the loss of our own selves.
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#Atmanasha, Self-loss, has taken place. As you have studied already, the Self is universal in Its nature. Self-loss is actually the loss of the Universal Principle – and if you lose the Universal, you have lost everything. There is nothing to hold on to afterwards.
##What can you grab, when the Universal has been lost sight of and escaped your notice?
###When you have lost the Universal, there is nothing with you afterwards. Everything has gone in one second. You are in the worst of conditions.
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#Birth and death follow. The rebirth of human individuality is nothing but the process of evolution accentuated in the human personality. What is called evolution is the cessation of one condition of things and the birth of the subsequent condition.
##If matter has to become plant, matter has to die first in order that it may become plant; if plant has to become animal, the plant condition has to die in order that the animal condition may come.
###So is the case if animal has to become man. All the preceding conditions must subside in order that the succeeding condition may arise. Thus, if a new condition, a new state of experience, has to be evolved in our own personality, the previous condition should be shed.
####The shedding of this previous condition is what is called death of the personality, and rebirth is nothing but the involvement of the very same consciousness in a succeeding condition.
#As we move onward and forward, upward through the ascent of consciousness from the lower to the higher, we not only enlarge the dimension of our individuality on the one hand, but also the distinction that appears to be there between the outer and the inner gets diminished.
##The subject and the object, which are 'divided', come nearer and nearer until a merger of the Universal Subject with the Universal Object takes place. And all that took place vanishes, as a dream passes. The tragedy of birth and death is part and parcel of the consequence of the negation of Universality and the affirmation of individuality.
###Yogam ( Not Yogasana - here the meaning is Yogam mentioned in our Scriptures) is the way, and the knowledge of the various yogas has been introduced to you.
The End.
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Friday, May 29, 2020.
Post-10.
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1.
#Over and above what it has already told us about creation and the way in which we find ourselves in this world, the Upanishad goes into further detail of the reason why we are in this condition. Birth and death become a necessary result that follows from involvement in externality.
##What we call evolution in modern scientific language is the effort of the external to become the Universal. Every atom, everything living and non-living, is attempting to regain its universality. The whole world of externality is attempting to regain its universality. The world is craving for God, and every little atom of creation is crying for that which it has lost.
###The restlessness that we feel in this world, the kinds of agony of various types in which we are involved – all these are explicable only as a manifestation of a basic sorrow, which is what has followed as a consequence of the loss of our own selves.
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2.
#Atmanasha, Self-loss, has taken place. As you have studied already, the Self is universal in Its nature. Self-loss is actually the loss of the Universal Principle – and if you lose the Universal, you have lost everything. There is nothing to hold on to afterwards.
##What can you grab, when the Universal has been lost sight of and escaped your notice?
###When you have lost the Universal, there is nothing with you afterwards. Everything has gone in one second. You are in the worst of conditions.
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3.
#Birth and death follow. The rebirth of human individuality is nothing but the process of evolution accentuated in the human personality. What is called evolution is the cessation of one condition of things and the birth of the subsequent condition.
##If matter has to become plant, matter has to die first in order that it may become plant; if plant has to become animal, the plant condition has to die in order that the animal condition may come.
###So is the case if animal has to become man. All the preceding conditions must subside in order that the succeeding condition may arise. Thus, if a new condition, a new state of experience, has to be evolved in our own personality, the previous condition should be shed.
####The shedding of this previous condition is what is called death of the personality, and rebirth is nothing but the involvement of the very same consciousness in a succeeding condition.
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4.#As we move onward and forward, upward through the ascent of consciousness from the lower to the higher, we not only enlarge the dimension of our individuality on the one hand, but also the distinction that appears to be there between the outer and the inner gets diminished.
##The subject and the object, which are 'divided', come nearer and nearer until a merger of the Universal Subject with the Universal Object takes place. And all that took place vanishes, as a dream passes. The tragedy of birth and death is part and parcel of the consequence of the negation of Universality and the affirmation of individuality.
###Yogam ( Not Yogasana - here the meaning is Yogam mentioned in our Scriptures) is the way, and the knowledge of the various yogas has been introduced to you.
The End.
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