The Mundaka Upanishad is among the older, primary or Mukhya Upanishadas. The Mundaka Upanishad is associated with the Atharva Veda. The Mundaka Upanishad is the Mantra Upanishad. The 1st Chapter of Mundaka Upanishad relates about the sciences taught by Lord Barhama to his eldest son Atharva. The chapter has been divided into two khandas and discusses about the real Self. Here Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe, the preserver of the world, was first produced among the gods. He taught the science of Brahman, the foundation of all sciences, to Atharva, his eldest son. Atharvan taught it to Angis. He explained it to Satyavaha of the family of Bharadvaja, who revealed the science, traditionally obtained by the succession of teachers, to Angiras. The son of Sanaka, next approached Angiras asking him to explain to him about Brahman. Angiras explained him that there are two sciences that all must be aware of, the highest and the lesser. The lesser comprehends the Rig Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda, accentuation, ritual, grammar, glossary, prosody and astronomy. The highest is the science, by which that indestructible Brahman is comprehended. He further explains that the Brahman is invisible, without origin, without distinction, without eye or ear, without hand or foot. He is the eternal, pervading, omnipresent, subtle, inexhaustible being that all the sages regard as the source of the elements. Angiras tells him that as a spider draws its web, as on the earth the annual herbs are produced, as from living man the hairs of the head and body spring forth, so is the universe is produced from the indestructible Brahman.
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