All this is Brahman alone || On Mundaka Upanishad (2021)

Acharya Prashant
12 min readMay 2, 2024

ब्रह्मैवेदममृतं पुरस्ताद्ब्रह्म पश्चाद्ब्रह्म दक्षिणतश्चोत्तरेण । अधश्चोर्ध्वं च प्रसृतं ब्रह्मैवेदं विश्वमिदं वरिष्ठम् ॥

brahmaivedamamṛtaṃ purastādbrahma paścādbrahma dakṣiṇataścottareṇa adhaścordhvaṃ ca prasṛtaṃ brahmaivedaṃ viśvamidaṃ variṣṭham

All this is Brahman immortal, naught else; Brahman is in front of us, Brahman behind us, and to the south of us and to the north of us and below us and above us; it stretches everywhere. All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent universe.

~ Verse 2.2.12

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Acharya Prashant (AP): We come to the last verse of the second Mundaka now.

“All this is Brahman immortal, naught else; Brahman is in front of us, Brahman behind us, and to the south of us and to the north of us and below us and above us; it stretches everywhere. All this is Brahman alone, all this magnificent universe.”

To the left of us, to the right of us; above us, below us; here, there; inside us, outside us. All this is Brahman alone.

What really is meant? Is there Brahman somewhere here and here and there (pointing outwards to various directions) and in here (pointing at the body) ? No, not that.

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