Keno upanishad

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 permanent. let the duties done by the renowned souls who

are permanently 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 controlling 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 analyze 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 don't 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 permanently.