Aitareya Upanishad - 12. - T.N.Sethumadhavan.

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Chinmaya Mission 

During the holy month of Karthika several Chinmaya Mission centres had special celebrations worshipping Lord Shiva and Vishnu. 

Featuring here the celebrations from Chinmaya Amarnath, Pittsburgh, USA and Sripaadakshetra, Bengaluru, India.

Swami Brahmananda of CM Bengaluru conducted a power packed profound Satsang focussed on Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s Upadesha Sara.

In Pittsburgh, over 500 plus devotees and community members came together for the Kartika Deepotsav 500 devotees to witness the festive Deepa Prajvalanam.

Chinmaya Mission Visakhapatnam hosted a Panchayatana Maharudra Yaagam in this auspicious month with daily Mahanyasa Poorvaka Rudrabhishekam to one of the Panchayatana deities Surya, Lalita Devi, Vishnu, Ganapati and Rudra, including a Sudharshana Homam.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022. 06:00. 

Chapter II - The Three Births of the Self 

Mantram-4,5 & 6.

Post - 12.

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Mantram-4.

so.asyAyamAtmA puNyebhyaH karmabhyaH pratidhIyate . 

athAsyAyAmitara AtmA kRitakRityo vayogataH praiti . 

sa itaH prayanneva punarjAyate tadasya tRitIya.n janma . 4.


The child who is the father’s own Self is made his substitute for performing virtuous 

deeds. Then the Self of the father, having accomplished his duties and reached his 

age departs. So departing hence, he is born again. This is the third birth. 


The father himself becomes the son in the manner explained in the above Mantras. When 

the son comes of age, the father entrusts him with all the family duties and 

responsibilities and feels free from parental debt. Ater this, the life span of the father gets 

shortened and he departs from the earth. Then according to his karma he is reborn again 

somewhere else in another womb. This is his third birth. This way the chain of birth and 

death continues so long as the man does not consider this chain as a bondage and torture 

and till he does not make effort to get released from it during his birth in the human form. 


Therefore the Upanishad stresses the need to try utmost to break this chain. Such 

examples are given in the next two Mantras. 

Mantram-5.

taduktamRiShiNA garbhe nu sannanveShAmavedamaha.n devAnA.n janimAni 

vishvA shataM mA pura AyasIrarakShannadhaH shyeno javasA niradIyamiti 

. garbha evaitachChayAno vAmadeva evamuvAcha .. 5.. 


About this a rishi has said: "While still lying in the womb, I came to know all the 

births of the gods. A hundred strongholds, as if made of iron, confined me, yet I 

burst through them all swiftly, like a hawk." Vamadeva spoke, in this way, even 

while lying in the womb. 


Sage Vamadeva, even while he was in his mother’s womb, obtained the real knowledge. 

Thus he said at that very stage, “O, what an amazing thing that while living in the womb 

itself I came to know the reality about these gods i.e inner senses and their several births. 


In other words, I knew that it is the inner sense and indriyas which are subjected to birth 

and death and not the Atman. Before I realized this secret I had to pass through several 

bodily cages hard like iron. I had such a strong identity with them that it was very 

difficult for me to get rid of them. Now, like a hawk, by applying the full strength of 

knowledge I broke all the fetters and became detached and free. I have no relation with 

the body and understood that I am not the body”.

Mantram-6.

sa eva.n vidvAnasmAchCharIrabhedAdUrdhva utkramyAmuShmin.h svarge loke 

sarvAn.h kAmAnAptvA.amRitaH samabhavat.h samabhavat.h .. 6.. 


Thus endowed with Knowledge, he, becoming one with the Supreme Self and 

soaring aloft on the dissolution of the body, obtained all desires in the heavenly 

world and became immortal-yea, became immortal. 

In this way Sage Vamadeva knew the secret of transmigration while he was in the womb 

itself. He knew that while a man feels himself identified with the body, he cannot escape 

the cycles of birth and death. Vamadeva coming through life rose up high from the 

mundane level and reached the Supreme abode of the Lord. There he found himself with 

no desires that were to be fulfilled and became immortal. He got released for ever from 

the wheel of birth and death. 


[The sage tells the pregnant women to come back to their seats]. 

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ityaitaropaniShadi dvitIyodhyAyaH - End of Chapter II 

atha aitaropaniShadi tRitIyodhyAyaH 

Chapter III - Consciousness is Supreme Oneness 

Preamble - It all started with Consciousness, Atman. 

To be continued 


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