Is’a : Sankara Bhashya on Isa Vasya Upanishad
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This Episode : We try to look at the first mantram of the Isa Vasya Upanishad.
The first word in it is Is’a.
In the Vedas, everytime there is a reference to the Divine, it is to one of his attributes. For eg savitr is progenitor, pUSan is the one who noursishes all of us, viSNu means omnipresent and so on.
Is’a refers to that aspect of God, the master, according to whose will or iSTa, this universe moves.
It is generally understood by many theists that everything happens as per the will of God – Satya.
Sankaracharya says that every which thing that moves in this moving world should be covered with Is’a.
This means that whenever you look at anything at all, see it with a cover of the Master or Isa, by whose will alone it moves or acts or is ie Under whose control it is – Satya
Aum. Is’A vAsyam idagam sarvam, yat kinchit jagatyAm jagat.
(idam in Rg veda is idagam in yajur veda, it means this).
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