Ishavasya Upanishad Sloka 3 | Translation and Interpretation | Upanishad Series

 Sloak 3:

            

असूर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः।

तांस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥

" Sunless are those who are destroying their 'Self' due to ignorance, for they are surely going towards the darkness after their death. "

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    Those who never stumble upon the thought that there is something which is beyond all the senses, beyond the time and changes.

That there lies something which does not age. A thing that is immortal and constant. 

To think that the end of physical reality is the end of all the reality is very narrow perception a person can have.

As a writer, now I am reflecting on all the past experiences, that I could recall, I can surely tell you that even me, myself had not had any such experience of the 'Self' other than the physical self but there are some instances which doesn't let me deny the existence of something beyond my physical reality.

Experience 1: Feeling deep sense of love and overwhelming joy for someone to whom I had never met and not even heard of before. Just by listening to their tales filled me with so many emotions that it moved me for the moment.

Experience 2: Many time, now-a-days whenever I had dreams, the dream that come right before waking up sometimes makes me question my reality. 

Maybe as I was believing in dream that the dream was the reality maybe this, too, is a reality because I am believing to be real.

Experience 3: The books of prophesies. I mean if the reality was the way we think it is then who come someone can predict the future. Its' almost like time-travel without actually travelling with the physical matter (such as body). 

Experience 4: Paranormal experiences. Everybody had it at some point of their life.