Is’A vAsyam idam sarvam yat kincha jagatyAm jagat : Isa Vasya Upanishad
Ganesha : Artist Rajan
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This is the first mantra of this upanishad :
Is’A vAsyam idam sarvam yat kincha jagatyAm jagat / tena tyaktEna bhunjIthA mA grudhah kasya svid dhanam. //
This is the translation :
By the Master (Lord), should be covered (as with a cloth) all this, every which thing, that moves in the world.
By giving that up, be protected, don’t covet, anyone’s wealth. (for whose is wealth?)
Satya Bhasyham based on Sankaracharya Bhasyam :
When you cover something with a cloth, all you can see is the cloth and not the object. Similarly when you cover everything by Is’a, all you can see is Is’a. It is detachment from all things that will protect you, neither the thing nor the attachment to it. Dhanam or wealth means different things to different people. But who does everything belong to ? Don’t covet things or want them, they are not yours or your neighbours’.
There is one Isa based on whose will everything moves. The concept of duality is an illusion. Just as wet sandal can be made to smell good again, by rubbing it with sandal, all duality, change and motion can be made to disappear by recognising Isa everywhere. All things have nothing but Isa, the paramAtma in them as their Atma. When you cover them again with Isa, the duality disappears. Now you no longer care for threefold desires of sons, wealth and worlds.
This is the way for those who seek liberation through renunciation. They need not perform any karma, vEdOkta or otherwise. And it has been explained previously that this upanishad is for those who seek to know the true nature of things. True Knowledge and Karma are not the same path at all.
We can work or we can know. Those who know cannot do and those who “Do/Act” do not/cannot know. Action (Karma) is for those who cannot understand the True Nature of Reality. Renunciation is for those who understand the true nature of reality.
Knowledge inhibits action, emotion facilitates action. – Satya
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