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On Mundaka Upanishad: The world as name and form

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

यथा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रेऽस्तं गच्छन्ति नामरूपे विहाय ।
तथा विद्वान्नामरूपाद्विमुक्तः परात्परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम् ॥

yathā nadyaḥ syandamānāḥ samudre’staṃ gacchanti nāmarūpe vihāya
tathā vidvānnāmarūpādvimuktaḥ parātparaṃ puruṣamupaiti divyam

As rivers in their flowing reach their home in the ocean and cast off their names and forms, even so, one who knows is delivered from name and form and reaches the Supreme beyond the Most High, even the Divine Person.

~ Verse 3.2.8

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Acharya Prashant (AP): “As rivers in their flowing reach their home in the ocean and cast off their names and forms, even so, one who knows is delivered from name and form and reaches the Supreme beyond the Most High, even the Divine Person.”

Name and form are the center of this verse. The one who knows is delivered from name and form, just…