The most beautiful, the most terrifying || On Mundaka Upanishad (2021)

तस्मादग्निः समिधो यस्य सूर्यः सोमात्पर्जन्य ओषधयः पृथिव्याम् । पुमान्रेतः सिञ्चति योषितायां बह्वीः प्रजाः पुरुषात्संप्रसूताः ॥

tasmādagniḥ samidho yasya sūryaḥ somātparjanya oṣadhayaḥ pṛthivyām pumānretaḥ siñcati yoṣitāyāṃ bahvīḥ prajāḥ puruṣātsaṃprasūtāḥ

From Him is fire, of which the sun is the fuel, then rain from the soma, herbs upon the earth, and the male casts his seed into woman: thus are these many peoples born from the Spirit.

~ Verse 2.1.5

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Acharya Prashant: In the same spirit comes the next verse.

“From Him is fire, of which sun is the fuel, then rain from the soma , herbs upon the earth, and the male casts his seed into woman: thus are these many peoples born from the Spirit.”

The import of the entire thing is: the entire game of Prakriti comes forth from Him. Do not get lost in Prakriti as an end in itself. Prakriti is neither its own origin nor its own end. Below Prakriti there is Him, and above Prakriti there is Him. What’s more, in the middle of everything in Prakriti , He is imminent. This is being said so that you do not get lost in all this that there is.