Saturday, August 16, 2014. Upanishads : 2. Kena Upanishad : Chapter-1. Mantram-2. Discussion-12. Chains that Shackle .... Recently, a black-marketeer left Delhi by train for Chennai. Noticing that this merchant had a lot of money on his person, another person, a rogue posing as a big whole-sale merchant, also started by the same train. He pretended to hold good business connections with the various merchants and talked in terms of crores and millions to the former. The first night he searched the belongings of the genuine merchant with a view of looting all his money. But, fot all his efficient search, the rogue could not find any trace of fat purse of the Delhi merchant. Next morning, the merchant was actually seen counting his wad of notes, as if nothing happened. Satisfied, the merchant thrust the purse into his coat-pocket. The rogue wondered where the merchant had concealed the purse during the night. The second night too was spent in vain attempt to get at the treasure. Again, in the early hours of the third morning, as the rogue emerged out of the toilet-cabin, he saw the merchant counting his wad of money. Again, he tried the third night, but again he met with disappointment. When they alighted in Chennai, they saluted each other and parted. The rogue could not control himself and so he asked the merchant where he kept the purse . The latter replied that he had been keepinghis money under the very pillow of the rogue! Just like that, friends, Vedantham says that Real Bliss is within ourselves, just under our own very noses. Yet in our ignorance we search for it among the objects of the world plodding on and on endlessly through Samsaram (life-time). Truth is so near that we cannot see it for ourselves. Going back for a moment to the opening two mantra-s of this Upanishadf, we find that the student asked a direct question to which the teacher seems to give not too direct an answer. It is the Eye of the Eye, the Ear of the Ear - this appears to be not an entirely satisfactory definition, this is begging the problem. Why does not the Teacher answer the question directly? Such a doubt must have been expressed in the eyes of the disciple, and so the Teacher, here in the following mantram (3), explains how the theme cannot be expressed better in language. WHY? Next : Mantram-3.
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