Muntakam

muntakam means clean shavened head.

this

upanishad is for the people who have sacrificed the worldly life and searching for the eternal wisdom. hence this name. this symbolises determination. this is in atharvana vetha(fourth). ohm......the brahma who has created this world and saving us is the first. satharvar. ...........1.1

he teaches this to his son

atharvar teaches this to angirar angirar teaches this to sathyavahar. sathyavahar teaches this to angirashar(teacher of english the derivative of sanskrit.)...1.2 once sownahar(who is living a comfortable worldly life) asks angirashar: by knowing which we can come to knowall. angirashar replies:

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there are two knowledges.

one is abara which gives us worldly knowledge. another is bara the knowledge which teaches us the origin of all these knowledges,the supreme,

the knowledge of creating these sounds itself. ...... 1.4&5 (after all any one can get the knowledge of the world by memorising all these words, but they dont know the real knowledge of the brahmam(the super soul or the god) that brahmam is not visible,cannot be hold,has no birth, no sect,no eyes,no ears, no hands, no legs, omnipotent, omnipresent, lives in everything,perpetuate, visible only to those knowledged who research themselves inside. ...........1.6 like the spider which produce the net by its own secrition and then demolish it by itself and like the plants which comes from the seeds themselves and like the hair grow in bodies this world is coming from that brahmam......1.7 by wisdom brahmam grows. from that the bodycomes.

from that all foods come.

from that the mind,

the senses, and the world (which has the illusioned appearanceof permanant) come.

from that the

desire and the actions and the results come....1.8 as brahmam is the reason for all these developments and as it is in everything,as all energy comes out

from that brahmam these physical bodies of all lives, all varieties of names, all worldly things

appears..

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para 2 that truth (the brahmam, the super soul or the god) is described in vedhas in various forms with so many differences and anamolies according to the knowledge level or the individual taste of those gnanis(hermits). search that real truth. follow it. that is the only way to know it. the rituals with fire aredescribed. ......2.2to2.6 but all these rituals are very low as they have done for materiliastic benefits.

eventhough

they are elaborative they are lower. their results are not permanant.

one who is doing these rituals

will again and again come to this world and bonded. ............2.7 these people who are doing these rituals think

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that they are highly knowledged, powerful

and suffer in this world like the blind

who are guided by another blind. .........2.8 as they are immersed very much in ignorance they imagined that they are highly knowledged. due to deep desires for the worldly pleasures they cannot come out of those cledges.

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(eventhough the eagle flies in the sky very high it's eyes are always in the dead animals in the earth.) as they are immersed in desires, actions, their results, they cannot come to know that there is another thing higher than all these things.

2.10

but one who controls his senses, attained peace, fully knowledged earns for his minimum existence, doing penance, purifies his mind removing all desires, will reach the brahma gnana( supreme knowledge.).....2.11 as the god cannot be reached by actions one must leave all the worldly actions and surrender his teacher totally.

as the student has reached

the teacher properly with peace in mind, leaving

all the desires, actions behind, the teacher will teach the real knowledge about the real god, the real brahmam, the real truth.

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second chapter/first para. this is the truth.

like sparks from a single fire

the entire world is coming out from a single brahmam.

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he is bright, no physical body, permanent in and out, giving no births, no life, no mind, pure, above all sounds and its derivatives.

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life is coming from him. the mind, the senses, the sky, the air, the fire, the water and all the world are coming out from him.

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fire is his head, moon and sun are his eyes, directions are his ears, holy books are his tongues, air is his breath, world is his mind, earth comes out from his legs.

he is the soul of all the worldly things

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(as all languages are created only by man all prayers of all sounds cannot help to reach god. silence is the language of god.) from him the fire(the root of sun)comes.

from

fire the moon comes. from moon the rain (water) comes. from water the plants, trees come. them the food comes. the man comes.

from

from food the energy for

from the energy life comes.

so everything come from brahmam. all vedhas,

.....1.5

all teachings, all developments,

all wealths, all time measurements,

the world

sanctified by sun and moon come.

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from him all races, human beings, animals, birds, life force, all seeds, penances, devotedness, truth, virginity, rules come.

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seven life forces, seven fires, seven major fuels, seven rituals, seven worlds, all seas, all mountains, all rivers, all plantains, all basic life force of living beings come from him.

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one who understand this and do the penance with the feeling that penance is his duty, brahmam is the nector, and the brahmam is inside his heart will reach the real stage of understanding the brahmamand will be in bliss permanantly.............1.10 second chapter second para

the brahmam is inside the heart and controls the five senses.

from him the movements of the

body, the running of the breathing and all are coming.

now come to know the truth and the

nontruth which is liked by all the living beings and which is not reachable by the experiences we get from the world and which has no equivalents.

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which is permanantly self illuminated, which is smaller than the atom itself. in which the the entire world is settled, in which all lifes are settled that is the brahmam. that is the life force. that is the speech. that is the mind. that is the truth. that is the elixir. aim at that.

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from the upanishad take the greatest mantra ohm, and chanting it with purity and devotion and concentrate on it and tune it with your whole mind.

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the branavam is (ohm) the bow. soul is the arrow. brahmam is the aim. no distraction.

concentrate.

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to whom which the entire world and the mind is tied must be known.

left all other words.

this is the only way to reach the eternal stage.

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the brahmam (supersoul) is tied with the nadis (nervous system ) that are connected with the heart like the spokes connected with the axis of a wheel. it appears on various forms. meditate on that brahmam with the mantra ohm directly . let success be yours in crossing the darkness of ignorance.

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eat the mango fruits directly without doing research about the mango fruit, its leaves, how many trees are there like that. ..........ramakrishna paramahamsa if you want to drink water in a pond with a lesser amount of water you must drink it without steering the pond and making the water muddy. ..........ramakrishna paramahamsa. one who can know everything easily, one who can understand deeply, one who has made this world

easily will come into your heart easily.......2.7 he is in the form of mind, he is conducting the body and the life, he is in your knowledge, he is in your body. he is the reason for bliss inside. knowledged one will understand it by their experience.

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when the brahmam has been seen the knot in your heart will be loosened automatically, doubts will be cleared themselves, all the sins will be destroyed automatically.

.....2.9

when the knowledge is brightened like gold pure and omnipotent brahmam will appear. it is pure and light of all the lights.. one who realises that is the real realised.

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there the sun will not have the brightness. and stars will have no brightness.

moon

then how the

agni (fire) will have brightness. as he is self illumined everything is getting the light only from him. undestructible that brahmam occupies everywhere east west north and south.

third chapter first para.

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there are two birds in a tree. they are inseparable and equally powered. one is eating the fruit in that tree and the other is looking at it without eating the fruit.

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the bird that ate the fruit lost its control and is in pain and sorrow. when it see the other bird realises its fault and recovered from its sorrow.

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one bird is adma(soul)and the other bird is jeev (life). here jeev eats the fruit and the adma is looking at it without any attachment. interesting thing in this small story is the comparison of adam and eev story.

eev eats

the fruit and adam is looking at her without eating it. adma is adam and jeev is eev.

upanishads are

more than five thousand years old and bible is two thousa nd years old. even after three thousand years the base, the root of the story is not changed much. while it is piple tree in upanishad it is bible

in other. when one can see the brahmam from its origin the god which is having the brightness of gold he will be away from all the sins and virtues and will be merging with the god easily.

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one who realises that the super soul is the part and parcel of every soul in every living being will not arque with anybodyelse about god and his entity as every soul is within him and his soul is everywhere and he will not arque that he is bigger than anybodyelse.

he is playing

with the adma inside and will be in happy permanantly. he who left the worldly desires will see the total brightness inside. it can be reached by keeping virginity, profound wisdom and deep penance and truth. ...........1.5 truth alone triump. it is the truth. the path for the eternal bliss will only be filled truth by which the sages (who left all their desires) are following. ..........1.6

it is big. but it is smaller than the atom itself. it is bright. it is dark. it is in the distance. it is nearer. one who realises it will see it inside the heart itself. .........1.7

(the br ahma gnana (kno wledge of the super soul cannot be de scri bed by any wor ds of any langua ge. tha t is why a ll the se contr adictor y wor ds in a single stanza .) you cannot see that by your eyes, you cannot speak about that by your mouth, you cannot know it by your senses. you cannot reach it by your penance and you cannot reach it by your rituals and duties. one who attain the clarity in wisdom can only see that brahmam by his meditation.

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in which the life force is entered in five ways, in which the senses, the mind, and all is entangled that soul is very complicative. it cannot be found out by mind and the knowledge. it will shine itself.

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after attaining the higher level one will fulfil all his desires.

he will get all the worldly benefits and all

the worldly pleasures automatically.

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the interesting thing in this is that one will have to control all his desires to merge with the supersoul and after reaching that stage all his desires will be fulfilled automatically.

in the world we can see

people who have sacrificed all their comforts to reach a higher level in spiritual world will become a leader and then all the people follow them and making them rich and comfort. this can be explained like this: all the peoples brain waves are in cama and delta waves. but when you sleep or hearing a music or when you are doing some prayers your brain waves will be in beta freequency. and when you reached the higher level it will be in alba waves. beta, cama, delta frequency people will obey alba waves people.

third chapter, second para: in which the entire world is settled and which is brighter than the sun itself and pure will be known by the self realised person. they will be desireless, courageous, and they will escape from the birth and death cycle.....2.1 one who cannot overcome desires and stands in that

will have the rebirth to fulfill those desires.

one who

who has all his desires fulfilled and has no desires further will not come to this world for rebirth.

....2.2

by knowing all the vedhas or by having the logical mind or by knowing all the worldly knowledge one cannot reach the brahmam. when one prays only the brahmam then he can reach it. the soul will automatically upgrade him to reach that stage.

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one who is weak will not reach it. one who is imagining that he has left all his desires and do only routine ritituals will not reach it.

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one who has reached the higher level will be satisfied with that union and remain in that bliss permanently. they will be in peace and will renounce everything. as they have controlled all senses and as they are courageous they will unite permanently with the brahmam when they leave this body.

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as they reach the strong mind by the experiences they reached during the union with the brahmam they will get purest mind easily. bliss permanently.

they remain in

when they leave this world

they easily unite with the god.

.....2.6

during death fifteen knowledges reach the origin of the wisdom. senses reach their respective devathas. {eyes to agni (fire), ears to vayu (air) like that.} all actions and their results and the soul reach the eternal god.

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like all the rivers lost their individual names and disappeared in the sea the soul of the gnanis reach the god.

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ignorants will not born in the family of that great soul. he will crosses the worldly sarrows. all the bindings will be removed and he will be in nector.

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this knowledge must be given to one who has completed all his duties and rituals and one who is inclined to get the supreme knowledge and one who is determined to receive the knowledge.

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this secret has been taught to sownahar by angirashar.

one who is not following

the rituals must not learn that. pranams to ancient rishis.

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