When one starts analysing the how and why of all this wonderful creation, and also the way it is sustained seamlessly through time immemorial, it automatically creates a humbling effect. The enormity of the task of creation and the subtlety and profound implications that surface continue to be awe inspiring. The Upanishads state that Brahman alone is both the instrumental and material cause of creation and that Brahman remains apart and is not affected by it in any way. This uniqueness and many such subtle features of Brahman as the Divine Principle in creation are explained systematically in the Mundaka Upanishad comprising 64 mantras, pointed out Sri K. Srinivasan in a discourse. First of all the Upanishad raises the doubt about how this world consisting of the mobile and immobile objects, the conscious and the inert, etc, all have their source in Brahman.

Source: The Hindu May 27, 2021 17:05 UTC