KENO UPANISHAD

[asoka]

keno upanishad
om apyayanthu mamangani | vak pranachchashu;
chrothram atho balaminthriyani sa sarvani |
sarvam brahmobanishatham |
maham brahma nirahuryam |
ma ma brahma nirakaroth |
anirakaranamasthu, anirakaranam mesthu |
thathathmani nirathe ya upanishathsu
tharmas-they mayi santhu, they mayi santhu
om santhi om santhi om santhi ............
let all my parts, speech, life force, energy, all my senses like eye ear etc
be doing their duties well. all these are only the brahmam (god).
god will not leave me. i cannot leave god. i pray that this relationship
will be permanant. let the duties done by the renowned souls who
are permanantly happy will be with me also.
let there be peace in the three world...............
student asks: why the mind is falling upon materialistic pleasures?
why the soul is engaged in desires? which god control senses? .....1.1
teacher: all these things are controlled only by the supreme one.
your eyes, sound, senses and the mind cannot enter into that. .....1.2
we cannot explain that. it is different from the things we known
and it is beyond the things we unknown. .....1.3
brahmam cannot be explained by words. what we are praying as
brahmam is not at all brahmam. .....1.4
for which mind cannot reach and by which the mind is controlled is
brahmam. .....1.5
ie:the eyes are controlled by the life force. the life force can see the eyes
but the eyes cannot see the life force. ..... 1.6
similarly the life force is cotrolling the mind. it can see the mind but
the mind cannot see the life.(ie:athma) .....1.8
nothing is bigger than the soul it is the infinity.
2nd paragraph:
if you think that you have understood well then that it is not at all brahmam.
similarly if you identify the brahmam with some gods then also it is wrong.
you will have to analise more ......2.1
student replies: now i can say that i understand brahmam because
i am not thinking that i know brahmam and at the same time i am not
have the feeling that i don't know the brahmam. .........2.2
ie: one who already understand brahmam will not say anything, he will only be in silence
one who says that i dont know the brahmam may know it. the more one is
educated he will be more away from the brahmam. ........2.3
ie:new science is darkness.
one who realises that he does not know the brahmam will only reach brahmam
and he will not die in this eternal world. .........2.4
one who knows this truth will not perish. and others will die
for ordinary causes. .......2.5
in the third and the fourth para how the agni(fire) the vayu(air) and
the inthran(god of the east) cannot find the brahmam is explained.
this is a symbolic story that explains that the more wealthed and the more
knowledged can not also understand brahmam.
like a thunder flash it comes in your mind. it is the first stage.
you will feel that you have reached it but it disappears after some
seconds. it is the second stage. you will feel the zeroness within
you during that time.
one who is doing his penance without any ambitions, one who is silent
at all situations (happy or sorrow), and one who is doing his duties
without any expectations will reach it in due course.
and he will be in the eternal bliss permanantly.