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Isopanishad - Translation and Analysis

Isa Upanishad

iSa Upanishad also called iSAvAsya Upanishad has 18 verses. It is part of Shukla Yajur Veda. It talks about ‘iSa’ the one that resides in all matter and beings, whatever that is born and moving in all the worlds. It does not abhor/hate anything. iSa is ‘love’, ‘priyam’(2).


This iSa is nothing but a manifestation of Atma in all matter and beings with the ‘purpose’ of making them to desire to live for 100’s of years.


Summary of iSAvAsAya Upanishad

iSa rules the born and moving

iSa inhabits/dwells in everything here, whichever born and moving in the worlds. That iSa enjoys by giving up, not coveting some other’s property.


It is that iSa (in matter and beings) that performs activities, making them to desire to live for 100’s of years. No action smears/attaches to the 'nara'. All of them are caused by the 'iSa' in 'nara'.

The world of asura is one of the worlds given up by Isa. This world of asura, though given up by Isa, is covered with andha tamas. This is world entered by the dead, those who have given up their Atma/self, the world of particles/jana.

The non-moving One (Atma), swifter than manas, which none of the devas (energy and matter forms) can reach ahead quickly, flows crossing over others that are situated/stand in the Apa that mAtarisva gives.

mAtarisva, Agni and Apa


mAtraisva (which means roughly mother arrow) is that which retrieves usable/transferable energy (agni) and gives it to matter. Hence mAtarisvan is praised as the one who gave Agni to Humans/manuSya.


Agni is usable/transferable energy. It is the energy that creates the matter, destroys the matter and present inside the matter evolving it. It is the energy that gets transferred between matter and helps produce new matter forms.


Who gives Agni, the usabe/transferable energy to us, humans..?


Agni is given to us by Photons, in the form of light from the sun. The light from the sun or the ‘real’ photons are the mother arrows, the mAtar-iSva.


Apa is Electromagnetic Interaction. Refer (1) on how Apa, Soma, madhu, the interactions are ‘modelled’ as fluids that are drunk.


All the energy and matter (collectively called devas) in the current Universe, stand on this Apa, the EM interaction of matter. Apa is caused by mAtraisVa the photons.

Stationary is Super-fast


The sloka says the One (iSa) is non-moving, but flows across, crossing over, swiftly all the devas. All the energy and matter move less swiftly than iSa, which is non-moving.


How can something that is non-moving be swifter than manas and all devas..?


When something is moving around us super-fast, it appears stationary. That’s how that ONE is moving so fast that it appears stationary.


That (ONE) moves, not moves, far off, near, inside all and outside all

iSa and Atman


iSa is the Atman that sees/observes in all matter forms which does not abhor/reject/hates.


iSa is the Atman, the knower, the oneness that sees, that manifests as ‘love’/’priyam’, that does not hate, in matter and beings. iSa is the Atman with a ‘purpose’ / ‘artha’.


In which all matter, atma becomes the knower, oneness is the one that sees, there what mohah, what zoka..?


In all the matter, that which cannot be gone around/cannot be estimated, zukram, without body, without wounds, without veins, clean, without pApa, wise, having thoughts, surrounding everywhere, self-born, whose purpose/meaning is performed, in that manner/gradually, eternally over time.


iSa is the Atman that manifests in all the matter, as that which performs its purpose gradually, eternally over time, has thoughts, is the knower, is the one who sees, is self-born, clean, pure, without defects (wounds), without parts (veins), without hate.

Vidya and Avidya


Vid is ‘to know’. Vidya is the process of knowing, which is ‘learning’. avidya is the process of un-learning. Learning, the process of knowing acquires information.


Un-learning gives up information. It leads to tamas, which is lack/reduction of information.


When only information is given out (only avidya), it leads to andham tama, which is bereft of any information.


They enter ‘andham tamah’ (totally bereft of information) who practice avidya/unlearning. This is totally understandable. When information is lost, a state of bereft of any information is reached.


Same way tamas abouds/manifests for those who delight in Vidya/learning only. This means those that learn only (acquire information only), they also reach the state which is bereft of any information.


How..?


Some matter forms are invoked by Vidya/learning/acquiring information. Some are invoked by Avidya/unlearning/losing information. Those steadfast/steady matter that are made visible to us are thus heard to be invoked by Vidya/learning and Avidya/unlearning.


Both learning/acquiring of information and un-learning/losing of information invoke the steady-state matter forms.


Thus only those that practice learning/vidya/gaining information and un-learning/avidya/losing information crosses the death by unlearning/avidya and experience the nectar by learning. Only those are sustainable in the long run of evolution.

Production and Destruction


Similar to Vidya and Avidya is sambhuti (production) and asambhuti (destruction).


They enter ‘andham tama’ those practicing matter destruction. This is obvious as destruction removes information.


Same way manifests tama in who delight in matter production. This means when only production of matter is done (generating new information), even then the state of andham tama, being bereft of any information is reached.


How..?


Some matter is invoked by production. Some matter is invoked in the destruction. All those steadfast/steady state matter are invoked by both production and destruction.


Hence those matter forms that ‘knows’ production and destruction together crosses the death by destruction and experiences nectar by production. In other words those matter forms that practice destruction as well as production sustain.

Learning/Production and Unlearning/Destruction


These matter forms are the information/knowledge of Atman. Atman is external to everything.


But it is also inside of all matter forms as ‘iSa’ that does not hate, as ‘love’.


Learning of new information by Atman is the production of new matter forms. Un-learning of information by Atman is the destruction of matter forms. Thus learning of information (production) leads to un-learning of information (destruction) which again leads to learning of newer information (production).

Pusan - That uncovers the dharma


By the hiranmaya pAtra, the face of Satya/existence is covered. The principle of pusan uncovers the existential laws to be seen.


I had translated Pusann as ‘QCD binding energy’ in the twelve Adityas. Adityas are energies that create. Daityas are energies that destroy. In the twelve Adityas, Pusan is the QCD binding energy that makes the first hadrons visible, triggering the process of hadronization. Refer (1).


Hadronization is the process that uncovers the laws of Universe as we see it now, as hadrons are the first formed matter in the Classical thermodynamics Universe. Before hadronization, it was Quark-Gluon-Plasma, which was in the ‘middle’ world or the madhyama.


This Quark-Gluon-Plasma is the ‘Hiranmaya pAtra’ (the golden vessel) that had covered the existential laws and Pusan, the QCD binding energy uncovers it.

Evolution from Pusan


From Pusan which uncovers the laws of existence, eka Rsi, Yama, Surya, descendants of Prajapati etc assembles their individual lustre one over the other assembling a brilliance.


Most auspicious of these forms are thus seen.


As I am with ‘aham/self’, the other one of these forms is the Purusha (which i translated as dark matter part of matter). Like I have the ‘self’, these matter forms have the dark matter in them.


vAyu (ensemble of particles, gases/fluids), anila (charged fluids/plasma), amrtam (particles that have mass) evolve and from there evolves solid matter forms that end up in ashes.

Kratu - The intelligence of Atman


Kratu is performance of a sacrifice/yajna.


Matter are the information/knowledge of the Atman. Yajna is the sacrifice of matter/information, in which evolution of new matter forms/information occur. This evolution/expansion of matter forms/information is the Brahman.


This Brahman/Evolution, which is the evolution of matter forms/information/knowledge is the only reality to be seen in this Universe.


If matter is information/knowledge of Atman, if Yajna is the sacrifice that evolves more information/knowledge (expands it), then the performance of this sacrifice is the ‘intelligence’ of the Atman.


Hence kratu is also known as ‘intelligence’ of Atman as well as performance of Sacrifice.

Kratu Smara - Krtam Smara - Kratu Smara - Krtam Smara


Smara are excitations. Lust is excitation. Bringing up memory is excitation. Hence Smara is both lust and bringing up old memory.


Performance of Sacrifice proceeds as ensemble of particles getting charged up, becoming massive by binding with each other and then burning up in ashes.


Thus performance of sacrifices excite/smara (the existing matter forms); The excitation/smara creates/krtam ( new matter forms); Performance of sacrifices/kratu excite/smara (these new matter forms); The excitation/smara creates/krtam (still newer matter forms).


This cycle of performance of sacrifice (kratu) leading to excitations (smara), excitations (smara) leading to newer matter generation (krtam), which in turn lead to newer performance of sacrifices (kratu) leading to newer excitations (smara) and those excitations (smara) leading to yet newer matter forms (krtam) is mentioned as ‘kratu smara krtam smara kratu smara krtam smara’.


But matter forms of Universe is also the information/knowledge of Atman. Kratu, the performance of sacrifice is the ‘intelligence’ of the Atman, as we saw before.


Hence this cycle can also be seen as ‘Intelligence lead to new information, which in turn leads to greater intelligence leading to yet newer information.

Agni - Our Purohita

In terms of matter, Agni (the usable/transferable energy in matter) leads the path of numerous matter forms. It is the ‘vidvan’, that knows all the Universe’s energy and matter. Since leads the path, it is said to be the ‘Puro-hita’, one who is placed in the front, leading.


This transfer of energy/Agni between matter invokes the production of numerous matter forms. Hence Agni is called ‘juhurAna’, the invoker, the sacrificing priest.



Those that desire manifestations/wealth of matter, offer salutations/submit their speech/expression to Agni. Only those matter forms that submit to Agni/ offer salutations to Agni, allow agni (energy) in them as the ‘invoker’ as the ‘purohita’ produce more matter forms.



References

1. http://vedabhasya.blogspot.com/2018/06/aditya-hrdayam-again-part-61-twelve.html

2. http://vedabhasya.blogspot.com/2018/08/brhadharanyaka-upanishad-sloka-148.html

3.
http://vedabhasya.blogspot.com/2018/11/isopanishad-translation-and-analysis.html



-TBT

PS: Since the site does not allow more than 20000 characters, posted the link with translation in (3).

 

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