Strike at the Imperishable Truth!

Mundaka Upanishad 2:2:4

Interpretation: Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Pranava dhanuh, sarahi esa atma Brahman tad lakhyam ucyate

Om is the bow; the soul is the arrow; and Brahman is its target. It is to be hit by an unerring man. One should become one with it just like an arrow.

You are only magnetizing your spine, bending it on the ground, and it is just like a bow. Then with a short breath, you are throwing the arrow. The breath is going just like an arrow, touching the Almighty Father Who is remaining in the fontanelle. He is the Supreme Almighty Father. Only your breath is going and touching Him by the practice of Kriya Yoga. In your every breath if you watch Him and touch Him in the fontanelle, then all your evils in your body will disappear. These are represented by all the arrows you are throwing at people all the time (at that time there was no gun). So this is pranava dhanuh, and sarahi esa atma.

And Brahman tad lakhyam ucyate means that it cannot be perceived by the five sense organs, it can only be perceived by the atom. So by the atom, in every breath it is going and touching the Almighty Father, so your mind is fixed and you are watching whether in every breath you are feeling heaviness in the fontanelle. You should not talk -dead in your mind, past the intellect and ego. You are magnetizing your spine, so you are getting a new type of circulation in your whole body. Scientifically speaking, you are giving pressure over the liver, so bile is produced. And you are applying pressure over the kidneys, spleen, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon... you are giving pressure everywhere, so you will be free from diseases.

Strike Beyond Delusion.

You have no delusion. You are throwing one arrow, you are touching the Almighty Father, and you are only absorbed in Him in every breath, you are the Almighty Lord. And you do not have anything of the world -the whole thing of the body, all evils, all wrongs, all immorality, and all debauchery will disappear. You will not even feel any body part. If you watch all the people of the world what they are doing, they are doing it by the five sense organs... but this is not bad.

You are going there, and calmly you are sitting. You are free from thought, mind. You are a person of meditation. You have no desire. In every breath you are feeling your all-evolution. You are not in rajaguna activity, you are free. You are spiritual. You are constantly absorbed in the Almighty Father. The whole day and night, you watch your breath, and in every breath you watch Him, and love Him, and thank Him, with a short breath. As the arrow is going and touching the evil person, similarly, the breath is going, just like an arrow, and it is touching the Almighty Father.

Feel His Presence.

You are getting a little presence of the Almighty. You are getting the Formless. Even in only two minutes' time, three minutes' time. You are hearing the Divine Sound, you are getting the God-movement sensation in the whole body - all the time it is moving from top to bottom, in the hundred body-parts. So you are feeling the Almighty Father. He is the King of Kings, and He is abiding within you. In your every breath you are feeling Him, then you will never get any negative habit. You will feel that every man is the living power of God. Wherever he casts his eyes, he is perceiving that the Almighty Father is there.

So if you calmly practice this Kriya in the bowing posture, and you throw one arrow after another, in every breath, then you will be free from desire. Your mind will be free. It is the enemy. Your anger will disappear. You will get nothingness. You will get only Godhood. It is
extreme pleasure. It is your liberation. In this way, the whole day and night, through your every activity, you watch your short breath. And then you are compassionately detached. As the drunkard drinks wine and does not know what he is doing, similarly, you will remain detached, you will remain in God, you will feel that you are free from the whole universe. So this is the explanation of the Mundaka Upanishad chapter 2, part 2, verse 4.