Poornamadah Poornamidam
When nothingness is perceived all around
and when one fathoms that nothing but nothingness exists,
When one feels hurtling towards nothingness via nothingness
and when one comprehends that nothingness pervades,
When one thinks that one has merged with nothingness
to finally realize that what got merged was nothing but nothingness all along,
the following exquisitely beautiful sanskrit sloka makes sense...
Aum Poornamadah Poornamidam
Poornaath Poornamudachyathe
Poornasya Poornamaadaaya
Poornameva Vasishyathe
Usha and the Red brigade
1 year ago
9 comments:
there is an argument to counter this nothingness theory.
IF everything is nothingness and all that you see and perceive is nothing then this knowledge cannot be nothing [because you are getting this knowledge]. but if you say this knowledge is nothing then it means that the world around is not nothing.
:D
ur argument is on a certain plane... and this sloka (I think, from my experience) is on a very different plane than that... so it would not make sense to judge each others opinions when we are sitting on different planes...
Partha, once again, either u r confused or have managed to confuse us.
May be u can give us ur interpretation of Poornamadah.
I dont think I am confused... :)
and neither do i have any special interpretation of Poornamadah.. its no different from the explanation obtainable from the net...
i thght poornam means full. but what is that about nothingness in here . ?that is something that confused...
I really think that the meaning of the sloka should be seen from an experiential perspective.. no amount of intellectual analysis will yield any meaning.
a quick search in google gave me this meaning
That (pure consciousness) is full (perfect); this (the manifest universe of matter; of names and forms being maya) is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness.
- Peace invocation -Isa Upanishad
we read and memorized these slokas, many poems, thirukural ...(I wont say I studied) never was meaning explained in such a way that I could grasp nor had the right frame of mind to get correct meaning of it to cherish it and internalise it.
I am happy that I am able to connect to it atleast now, even though its a bit late.
its never too late to connect with the truth :)
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