Hiranyagarbha

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 20 Oct 2011 08:27 and updated at 20 Oct 2011 08:27

UPANISHAD NOUN

Katha 1.3.10. The sensory objects are subtler than the senses, and subtler than the sensory objects is mind. But intellect is subtler than mind and subtler than intellect is Mahat (the Hiranyagarbha).
Katha 1.3.11. The unmanifested (avyakta) is subtler than Mahat Hiranyagarbha() and subtler than the unmanifested is Purusha. There is nothing subtler than Purusha. That is the end, that is the supreme goal.
Katha 2.3.7. The mind is subtler than the senses; subtler than the mind is the intellect; Mahat Hiranyagarbha() is subtler than the intellect; subtler than Mahat is Avyakta (Unmanifested).
Taittariya ndredfold, it is one joy of Brihaspati and so also of a follower of the Vedas unaffected by desires. If the joy of Brihaspati be increased a hundred times, it is one joy of Virat, and so also of a follower of the Vedas untarnished by desires. If the joy of Virat be multiplied a hundred times, it is one joy of Hiranyagarbha, and so also of a follower of the Vedas unsullied by desires.
Taittariya 3.10.5,6: He who knows thus, attains, after desisting from this world, this self made of food. After attaining this self made of food then, attaining this self made of vital force, then attaining this self made of mind, then attaining this self made of intelligence, then attaining this self made of bliss, and roaming over these worlds with command over food at will and command over all forms at will, he continues singing this Sama song: Halloo Halloo Halloo I am the food, I am the food, I am the food; I am the eater, I am the eater, I am the eater; I am the unifier, I am the unifier, I am the unifier; I am Hiranyagarbha() the first born of this world consisting of the formed and the formless, I (as Virat) am earlier than the gods. I am the navel of immortality. He who offers me thus (as food), protect me just as I am. I, food as I am, eat him up who eats food without offering. I defeat (i.e. engulf) the entire universe. Our effulgence is like that of the Sun. This is the Upanishad.
Isavasya 12. To pitch darkness they go who worship the Unmanifested Prakriti(). To a greater darkness than this go those who are devoted to the Manifested Hiranyagarbha().
Isavasya 14. He who knows both the Unmanifested and the destructible Hiranyagarbha() together, transcends death by the (worship of) the destructible and attains immortality by the (worship of the Unmanifested.
Prashna 5.5: Again, any one who meditates on the supreme Purusha with the help of this very syllable Aum, as possessed of three letters, becomes unified in the Sun, consisting of light. As a snake becomes freed from its Slough, exactly in a similar way, he becomes freed from sin, and he is lifted up to the world of Brahma Hiranyagarbha() by the Sama mantras. From this total mass of creatures (that Hiranyagarbha is) he sees the supreme Purusha that penetrates every being and is higher than the higher One (viz. Hiranyagarbha). Bearing on this, there occur two verses:
Mundaka 1.1.8: Through knowledge Brahman increases in size. From that is born food (the Unmanifested). From food evolves Prana Hiranyagarbha(); (thence the cosmic) mind; (thence) the five elements; (thence) the worlds; (thence) the immortality that is in karmas.

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