PURE TRUTH

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Chapter:-2.

Mantram:-1.


Yadi   manyase   suvedeti   dabhramevapi

nunam   tvam   vettha   Brahmano   rupam;

yadasya   tvam   yadasya   devesvatha  nu

mimamsyameva   te   manye   viditam.



Meaning of the Mantram-

The preceptor here hastens to warn his disciple: "If you think, 'I knew well.' it is certainly but little- the form of the Brahmam you have known is also the form of the Devas. Therefore, I think that what what you think is still to be ascertained." 


Explanation:-

Fool:-

The teacher reads the face of the disciple and gives a timely warning : "If you think that you know the Atma well, you are indeed a fool. I have said that the Atma is the Eye of the Eye etc , and the same is the Chaithanya(Power) in heavenly forms of the Devas also. But because of these statements in the last chapter  if you conclude that you have 'realised' Atma, you are sadly mistaken.  


Conditioned Truths:-


Conditional Truths, Delve deeper, realise the Pure Existence: what we see, hear, etc...are all Conditioned Truths. Pure Truths lie behind and beyond all names and forms. And at the realisation of the Pure Existence, all names and forms get merged into THAT, for all That is there beyond the Form of existence is non-existence


Example:- 'Nobody can convey water without a vessel. So too in conveying the Knowledge of Truth. Absolute Truth cannot be explained in words. Just as you cannot bring water without a vessel, so too we cannot express Truth except through the medium of some-one or the other of its conditioning.            


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