Mundaka Upanishad - Mundaka 3, Section 2 - Shuddha Kannada

The second section of the third Mundaka is the Upanishad's final liberation seal. After guiding the seeker through discrimination, contemplative method, and witness-recognition, this concluding section states with directness what realization is, who is prepared for it, how bondage ends, and how the knower abides.

Its progression is exact: the Brahman-abode and desirelessness, the law of desire-driven rebirth, the limits of mere scholarship, the indispensability of strength, alertness, and disciplined austerity, the nature of realized sages, Vedantic certainty through renunciation, dissolution of constituents, river-ocean merging metaphor, becoming Brahman through knowledge, and disciplined transmission protocol.

॥ ತೃತೀಯಮುಣ್ಡಕೇ ದ್ವಿತೀಯಃ ಖಣ್ಡಃ ॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
This is the second section of the third Mundaka, the concluding liberation-oriented section of the Upanishad.

ಸ ವೇದೈತತ್ ಪರಮಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ಧಾಮ
ಯತ್ರ ವಿಶ್ವಂ ನಿಹಿತಂ ಭಾತಿ ಶುಭ್ರಮ್ ।
ಉಪಾಸತೇ ಪುರುಷಂ ಯೇ ಹ್ಯಕಾಮಾಸ್ತೇ
ಶುಕ್ರಮೇತದತಿವರ್ತನ್ತಿ ಧೀರಾಃ ॥ 1॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
One who knows the supreme Brahman-abode in which the whole universe is established and shines pure - those desireless contemplatives of the supreme conscious reality, being steadfast, go beyond the seed of rebirth.

ಕಾಮಾನ್ ಯಃ ಕಾಮಯತೇ ಮನ್ಯಮಾನಃ
ಸ ಕಾಮಭಿರ್ಜಾಯತೇ ತತ್ರ ತತ್ರ ।
ಪರ್ಯಾಪ್ತಕಾಮಸ್ಯ ಕೃತಾತ್ಮನಸ್ತು
ಇಹೈವ ಸರ್ವೇ ಪ್ರವಿಲೀಯನ್ತಿ ಕಾಮಾಃ ॥ 2॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
One who continually desires objects is born again and again according to those desires; but for the fulfilled, self-integrated knower, all desires dissolve here itself.

ನಾಯಮಾತ್ಮಾ ಪ್ರವಚನೇನ ಲಭ್ಯೋ
ನ ಮೇಧಯಾ ನ ಬಹುನಾ ಶ್ರುತೇನ ।
ಯಮೇವೈಷ ವೃಣುತೇ ತೇನ ಲಭ್ಯ-
ಸ್ತಸ್ಯೈಷ ಆತ್ಮಾ ವಿವೃಣುತೇ ತನೂಂ ಸ್ವಾಮ್ ॥ 3॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
This Self is not attained by discourse, mere intelligence, or extensive hearing alone; it is attained by the one wholly aligned to it, to whom the Self reveals its own nature.

ನಾಯಮಾತ್ಮಾ ಬಲಹೀನೇನ ಲಭ್ಯೋ
ನ ಚ ಪ್ರಮಾದಾತ್ ತಪಸೋ ವಾಪ್ಯಲಿಙ್ಗಾತ್ ।
ಏತೈರುಪಾಯೈರ್ಯತತೇ ಯಸ್ತು ವಿದ್ವಾಂ-
ಸ್ತಸ್ಯೈಷ ಆತ್ಮಾ ವಿಶತೇ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಧಾಮ ॥ 4॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
The Self is not attained by inner weakness, heedlessness, or merely external ascetic marks; but the discerning one who strives through right means realizes this Self in Brahman-abidance.

ಸಮ್ಪ್ರಾಪ್ಯೈನಮೃಷಯೋ ಜ್ಞಾನತೃಪ್ತಾಃ
ಕೃತಾತ್ಮಾನೋ ವೀತರಾಗಾಃ ಪ್ರಶಾನ್ತಾಃ
ತೇ ಸರ್ವಗಂ ಸರ್ವತಃ ಪ್ರಾಪ್ಯ ಧೀರಾ
ಯುಕ್ತಾತ್ಮಾನಃ ಸರ್ವಮೇವಾವಿಶನ್ತಿ ॥ 5॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
Having realized this, sages become fulfilled in knowledge, self-mastered, attachment-free, and peaceful; realizing the all-pervading, integrated in Self, they become one with all.

ವೇದಾನ್ತವಿಜ್ಞಾನಸುನಿಶ್ಚಿತಾರ್ಥಾಃ
ಸನ್ನ್ಯಾಸಯೋಗಾದ್ ಯತಯಃ ಶುದ್ಧಸತ್ತ್ವಾಃ ।
ತೇ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಲೋಕೇಷು ಪರಾನ್ತಕಾಲೇ
ಪರಾಮೃತಾಃ ಪರಿಮುಚ್ಯನ್ತಿ ಸರ್ವೇ ॥ 6॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
Those who have firmly ascertained Vedantic truth, and through renunciate discipline are purified in mind, attain complete liberation as supreme immortality at final consummation.

ಗತಾಃ ಕಲಾಃ ಪಞ್ಚದಶ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾ
ದೇವಾಶ್ಚ ಸರ್ವೇ ಪ್ರತಿದೇವತಾಸು ।
ಕರ್ಮಾಣಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಮಯಶ್ಚ ಆತ್ಮಾ
ಪರೇಽವ್ಯಯೇ ಸರ್ವೇ ಏಕೀಭವನ್ತಿ ॥ 7॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
At dissolution, the fifteen constituents return to their sources, sensory powers to their presiding principles, and karmic and intellect-associated individuality resolves into the supreme imperishable.

ಯಥಾ ನದ್ಯಃ ಸ್ಯನ್ದಮಾನಾಃ ಸಮುದ್ರೇಽ
ಸ್ತಂ ಗಚ್ಛನ್ತಿ ನಾಮರೂಪೇ ವಿಹಾಯ ।
ತಥಾ ವಿದ್ವಾನ್ ನಾಮರೂಪಾದ್ವಿಮುಕ್ತಃ
ಪರಾತ್ಪರಂ ಪುರುಷಮುಪೈತಿ ದಿವ್ಯಮ್ ॥ 8॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
As flowing rivers enter the ocean leaving separate names and forms, so the knower, freed from name-form identification, attains the supreme luminous conscious reality beyond all.

ಸ ಯೋ ಹ ವೈ ತತ್ ಪರಮಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ವೇದ
ಬ್ರಹ್ಮೈವ ಭವತಿ ನಾಸ್ಯಾಬ್ರಹ್ಮವಿತ್ಕುಲೇ ಭವತಿ ।
ತರತಿ ಶೋಕಂ ತರತಿ ಪಾಪ್ಮಾನಂ ಗುಹಾಗ್ರನ್ಥಿಭ್ಯೋ
ವಿಮುಕ್ತೋಽಮೃತೋ ಭವತಿ ॥ 9॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
Who truly knows the supreme Brahman becomes Brahman; in that lineage ignorance does not persist. One crosses sorrow and sin-bondage, and being freed from the knots of the heart becomes immortal.

ತದೇತದೃಚಾಽಭ್ಯುಕ್ತಮ್ ।
ಕ್ರಿಯಾವನ್ತಃ ಶ್ರೋತ್ರಿಯಾ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮನಿಷ್ಠಾಃ
ಸ್ವಯಂ ಜುಹ್ವತ ಏಕರ್ಷಿಂ ಶ್ರದ್ಧಯನ್ತಃ ।
ತೇಷಾಮೇವೈತಾಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮವಿದ್ಯಾಂ ವದೇತ
ಶಿರೋವ್ರತಂ ವಿಧಿವದ್ ಯೈಸ್ತು ಚೀರ್ಣಮ್ ॥ 10॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
Thus it is declared: this knowledge of Brahman should be taught only to those disciplined in conduct, grounded in scripture and Brahman-abidance, endowed with reverent trust, and who have duly completed the required observances.

ತದೇತತ್ ಸತ್ಯಮೃಷಿರಙ್ಗಿರಾಃ
ಪುರೋವಾಚ ನೈತದಚೀರ್ಣವ್ರತೋಽಧೀತೇ ।
ನಮಃ ಪರಮೃಷಿಭ್ಯೋ ನಮಃ ಪರಮೃಷಿಭ್ಯಃ ॥ 11॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
This indeed is truth, declared anciently by sage Angiras. It is not to be studied by one who has not completed the required discipline. Salutations to the supreme seers.

॥ ಇತಿ ಮುಣ್ಡಕೋಪನಿಷದಿ ತೃತೀಯಮುಣ್ಡಕೇ ದ್ವಿತೀಯಃ ಖಣ್ಡಃ ॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
Thus ends the second section of the third Mundaka in the Mundaka Upanishad.

॥ ಇತ್ಯಥರ್ವವೇದೀಯ ಮುಣ್ಡಕೋಪನಿಷತ್ಸಮಾಪ್ತಾ ॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
Thus the Mundaka Upanishad belonging to the Atharva Veda is concluded.

ಓಂ ಭ@ದ್ರಂ ಕರ್ಣೇ#ಭಿಃ ಶೃಣು@ಯಾಮ# ದೇವಾಃ । ಭ@ದ್ರಂ ಪ#ಶ್ಯೇಮಾ@ಕ್ಷಭಿ@-ರ್ಯಜ#ತ್ರಾಃ । ಸ್ಥಿ@ರೈರಙ್ಗೈ$ಸ್ತುಷ್ಟು@ವಾಗಂ ಸ#ಸ್ತ@ನೂಭಿ#ಃ । ವ್ಯಶೇ#ಮ ದೇ@ವಹಿ#ತ@ಂ ಯದಾಯು#ಃ । ಸ್ವ@ಸ್ತಿ ನ@ ಇನ್ದ್ರೋ# ವೃ@ದ್ಧಶ್ರ#ವಾಃ । ಸ್ವ@ಸ್ತಿ ನ#ಃ ಪೂ@ಷಾ ವಿ@ಶ್ವವೇ#ದಾಃ । ಸ್ವ@ಸ್ತಿ ನ@ಸ್ತಾರ್ಕ್ಷ್ಯೋ@ ಅರಿ#ಷ್ಟನೇಮಿಃ । ಸ್ವ@ಸ್ತಿ ನೋ@ ಬೃಹ@ಸ್ಪತಿ#-ರ್ದಧಾತು ॥
ಓಂ ಶಾನ್ತಿ@ಃ ಶಾನ್ತಿ@ಃ ಶಾನ್ತಿ#ಃ ॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
May we hear and see what is auspicious, and with steady faculties live the life aligned to divine good; may there be peace, peace, peace.

॥ ಓಂ ಶಾನ್ತಿಃ ಶಾನ್ತಿಃ ಶಾನ್ತಿಃ ॥

Translation (ಭಾವಾರ್ಥ):
The sacred syllable Om. Peace, peace, peace.

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