Maha Vakya
Upanishad
Om ! O Devas, may we hear with our ears
what is auspicious;
May we see with our eyes what is auspicious, O ye worthy of worship !
May we enjoy the term of life allotted by the Devas,
Praising them with our body and limbs steady !
May the glorious Indra bless us !
May the all-knowing Sun bless us !
May Garuda, the thunderbolt for evil, bless us !
May Brihaspati grant us well-being !
Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
Let there be Peace in my environment !
Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !
God Brahma said:
I would explain this Upanishad based on inside experience. The personal
knowledge “that this Sun is Brahman” is got by chanting Ajabha Gayatri
viz., “Hamsa Soham.” The ever joyous Paramatma would set in if, after
controlling Prana and Apana by Pranayama, and attaining it (pranayama)
by constant and long practice of Pooraka and Rechaka (macro, micro as
well as together) and making the mind concentrate on the same Brahman in
three stages. It would shine like one thousand suns and would be
complete like the shoreless sea. That experience is neither Samadhi nor
Yoga Sidhi and nor mixing of the mind. That is merging with Brahman as
Brahman is always single.
The sages who experience this tell as follows: I know that Purusha with
the shining light who is beyond darkness, who makes shapes, who names
them, who provides for them and who is the brave Purushotama. The one
who finds out that Purusha, who was announced as Para Brahman by Brahma
in the primitive times and who was found out by Indra in all the four
directions, attains the deathless state in this birth itself. There is
no other method for salvation.
I am that sun who is the ethereal light. I am that Siva who is that sun
of Knowledge. I am the very clean light of Atma. I am all the light that
we know. Om.
Whoever reads this Upanishad of Atharva-Veda gets the same holy effect
as reading the complete Vedas. He would definitely attain the place of
Maha Vishnu.
Om ! O Devas, may we hear with our ears what is auspicious;
May we see with our eyes what is auspicious, O ye worthy of worship !
May we enjoy the term of life allotted by the Devas,
Praising them with our body and limbs steady !
May the glorious Indra bless us !
May the all-knowing Sun bless us !
May Garuda, the thunderbolt for evil, bless us !
May Brihaspati grant us well-being !
Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
Let there be Peace in my environment !
Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !
Here ends the Maha-Vakyopanishad, as contained in the Atharva-Veda. |