Truth of things || On Mundaka Upanishad (2021)

तदेतत्सत्यं यथा सुदीप्तात्पावकाद्विस्फुलिङ्गाः सहस्रशः प्रभवन्ते सरूपाः । तथाक्षराद्विविधाः सोम्य भावाः प्रजायन्ते तत्र चैवापि यन्ति ॥

tadetatsatyaṃ yathā sudīptātpāvakādvisphuliṅgāḥ sahasraśaḥ prabhavante sarūpāḥ tathākṣarādvividhāḥ somya bhāvāḥ prajāyante tatra caivāpi yanti

This is that, the truth of things: as from one kindled fire thousands of different sparks are born and all have the same form of fire, so, O fair son, from the Immutable manifold becomings are born and even into that they depart.

~ Verse 2.1.1

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Acharya Prashant: “This is that, the truth of things: as from one kindled fire thousands of different sparks are born and all have the same form of fire, so, O fair son, from the Immutable manifold becomings are born and even into that they depart.”

Just as from one kindled fire thousands of different sparks arise, similarly from that one Truth called Brahman manifold becomings are born, and into that one Truth all the manifold becomings depart, unbecome. From the Immutable come all things that mutate, and all things that mutate ultimately perish into the Immutable. That is the truth of things, says the verse. That is the truth of things.