isha upanishad in English | isha upanishad chanting verse 14 | ishavasya upanishad | Immortality by Worshipping Manifested and Unmanifested Both

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Welcome back to our blog. Today we will discuss fourteenth shloka of Isha Upanishad.

Let's recite the shloka.

सम्भूतिञ्च विनाशञ्च यस्तद्वेदोभयं सह।
विनाशेन मृत्युं तीर्त्वा सम्भूत्याऽमृतमश्नुते ॥

In English

“sambhūtiñca vināśañca yastadvedobhayaṁ saha |

vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyā'mṛtamaśnute ||”

Translation in English:

The person who knows the unmanifested and destruction both attains immortality through unmanifested by crossing death through destruction.

Let me try to explain the Shloka using the life of Swami Vivekananda. Those days Swamiji was known by his given name Narendranath, a young boy curious to know the truth of this universe. Narendranath joined a well spreaded movement named Brahma Samaj. He learnt the worship of Brahman (the formless absolute) from this society before receiving Shri Ramakrishna as his Guru. He had a void in his heart though he was practicing meditation of the formless supreme reality. That void was filled when he experienced the idol of Goddess Kaali and started believing in idol worship. Then he accepted Shri Ramakrishna as his spiritual teacher and started experiencing Brahman (God) in every living being, idols, in his Guru and even the formless Brahman in meditation. Because of this reason it is believed he was liberated himself and left his body through Mahasamadhi.

Before we understand this Shloka, we recommend you to watch previous Shlokas to understand worsipping manifested and unmanifested and of course other shlokas if you missed them. Links to those blogs are given at the bottom of this page.

The Rishi is trying to give us immortality if we can take it. He is saying remove your ignorance and know the supreme reality. Here knowing means experiencing it in manifested and unmanifested. The word destruction had been used synonymous to manifested. Destruction means whatever is destroyed. This body will be destroyed. That means, here he is talking about manifested by saying destruction. By now we already know all the living beings are manifested and all the nonliving are unmanifested. Death of the body cannot be stopped but death of intelligence and mind can be stopped through knowledge. Once you receive that knowledge you can understand everything whether it is living like you or non-living like this earth, all are Brahman. Once you identify your Self or Aatman with that ocean Brahman, you understand you are immortal. Hence, in the story of Swamiji he was enlightened by knowing and experiencing Brahman in everything and ultimately absorbed in that reality.

In 21st century when human beings are trying to find life on other planets, we read harrowing news every day. As examples, a Church is burnt by a mob because of blasphemy. A Hindu man is beheaded because he is Quafir. Budhhist temples burnt for blasphemy. A gunman attacked innocent people in a mosque. A temple or a Gurudwara was attacked by radical Islamic groups. Why will such incidents take place in a civilized society? Why can’t we show respect to other religions? Why can’t we show some tolerance? These kinds of incidents happen when a Guru or a Maulana or a Father of a church or Parents teach the innocent children that only one type of worship is right and followed by others are wrong or teach there is only one God who is sitting in the heaven and the Gods followed by others are not God or teach to differentiate between people. This problem easily can be handled by showing the mirror. Whichever God you are worshipping is present in everyone and everything, whether living or non-living. Whatever way you worship, it is useless without knowing the truth. When everything and everyone including you is the same reality whom you are killing or hurting or burning. Such activities will not give you a place in any heaven because you already killed yourself with such activities. No one has seen heaven or hell but when you live peacefully with others will not this place become heaven for you and others? With that kind of higher moral and ideal, death never can touch you even if you don’t understand the Aatman and Brahman and immortality. Because the same ethical values you will pass to the next generation. You will live in those values from generation to generation though your body would collapse one day. I believe whoever is listening this Shloka will achieve immortality by understanding this Shloka and practicing it in daily life.

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