Namaskaar. Continuing with Part 14 of Mundaka Upanishad commentary :
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The muNDakopaniShat – Part 14
(Continuing Mantra 3.1.4)
The knower of Ātman sports with the Self and does not find interest in sporting with wife, son, etc. Hence he is called ‘Ātmakrīḍaḥ’. And he is ‘Ātmaratiḥ’, as he delights in the Self. While sport, krīḍā, requires an external object, ‘ratiḥ’, delight, does not require any object; it is just love for an external object. The knower of the Self is also a man of action: contemplation, meditation, dispassion, etc. are those that engage him constantly. In any case the epithet ‘man-of-action’ found in the mantra can never mean that he combines scripturally ordained duties like agnihotra along with the knowledge of Brahman. This is because it goes against what the mantra also says: he is the ‘foremost of knowers’. Only he who has withdrawn from external action can be truly sporting with the Self. Engaging in action and sporting with the Ātman is akin to the combining of darkness and light. The two cannot be in the same locus. Thus, such a Knower of Brahman, who does not indulge in worldly talk, who always sports in the Self, delighted in the Self, is the foremost among Knowers. Continue reading
