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muntakam means clean shavened head. thisupanishad 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 worldand saving us is the first. he teaches this to his sonsatharvar............1.1

atharvar teaches this to angirar angirarteaches this to sathyavahar.

sathyavahar teaches this to angirashar(teacher

of english the derivative of sanskrit.)...1.2

once sownahar(who is living a comfortableworldly life) asks angirashar:

by knowing which we can come toknowall. ............1.3.

angirashar replies: 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,

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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 all foods come.

from that the bodycomes. 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

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from that brahmam these physical bodies of all lives,

all varieties of names, all worldly things

appears.. ............1.9

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. ............2.1

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.

.........2.8as 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. ............2.9

(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

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all the desires, actions behind, the teacher will

teach the real knowledge about the real god,

the real brahmam, the real

truth. ..........2

second chapter/first para.

this is the truth. like sparks from a single fire

the entire world is coming out from a single

brahmam. .....

he is bright, no physical body, permanent in and out,

giving no births, no life, no mind, pure, above all

sounds and its derivatives. .........1.2

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. ........1.3

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 ......1.4

(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

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fire the moon comes. from moon the rain (water)

comes. from water the plants, trees come. from

them the food comes. from food the energy for

the man comes. from the energy life comes.

so everything come from brahmam. .....1.5

all vedhas, all teachings, all developments,

all wealths, all time measurements, the world

sanctified by sun and moon come. ............1.6

from him all races, human beings, animals, birds,

life force, all seeds, penances, devotedness, truth,

virginity, rules come. ...........1.7

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. ......1.8&9

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

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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. .............2.1

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. ......2.2

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. ........2.3

the branavam is (ohm) the bow. soul is the

arrow. brahmam is the aim. no distraction.

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concentrate. .......2.4

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. ..........2.5

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. .......2.6

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

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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. .........1.1

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. ...........1.2

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

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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. ......1.3

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

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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 supersoul cannot be de scri bed by any wor ds of anylangua ge. tha t is why a ll the se contr adictor ywor ds in a s ingle 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. ............1.8

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. .........1.9

after attaining the higher level one will fulfil all his

desires. he will get all the worldly benefits and all

the worldly pleasures automatically. ........1.1o

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the interesting thing in this is that one will haveto 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

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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. .....2.3

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. .....2.4

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. ...........2.5

as they reach the strong mind by the experiences

they reached during the union with the brahmam

they will get purest mind easily. they remain in

bliss permanently. when they leave this world

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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. .......2.7

like all the rivers lost their individual names and

disappeared in the sea the soul of the gnanis

reach the god. ......2.8

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. ......2.9

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. .......2.10

this secret has been taught to sownahar

by angirashar. one who is not following

the rituals must not learn that. pranams

to ancient rishis. ..........2.11

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