Q) What is the concept Adam and Eve? How to understand these two characters?
Eve = Prakriti = Vyakta = Manifested Cosmos
It is erroneous to depict Adam and Eve as Man and Woman.
The thought is the fruit. Thinking process is the sin. When one is in the thinking process, then the creation goes on and that one is bound to the wheel of samsara undergoing the cycle of birth and death. When one comes out of the thinking process there is no creation. Then one enters into the Avyakta or the Unmanifested Cosmos. Then one is out of the wheel of samsara. That individual dies before his/her physical death and there is no more and nothing to be born again.
In Mundaka Upanishad third chapter, first khanda there are two verses which tell us a story of two birds on a tree.
Mundaka Upanishad - Chapter III, Khanda 1, Verse/Mantra 1:
A) It is very simple.
Adam = Purusha = Avyakta = Unmanifested Cosmos
Eve = Prakriti = Vyakta = Manifested Cosmos
It is erroneous to depict Adam and Eve as Man and Woman.
The thought is the fruit. Thinking process is the sin. When one is in the thinking process, then the creation goes on and that one is bound to the wheel of samsara undergoing the cycle of birth and death. When one comes out of the thinking process there is no creation. Then one enters into the Avyakta or the Unmanifested Cosmos. Then one is out of the wheel of samsara. That individual dies before his/her physical death and there is no more and nothing to be born again.
In Mundaka Upanishad third chapter, first khanda there are two verses which tell us a story of two birds on a tree.
Mundaka Upanishad - Chapter III, Khanda 1, Verse/Mantra 1:
द्वा सुपर्णा सयुजा सखाया समानं वृक्षं परिषस्वजाते |
tayor anyaḥ pippalaṁ svādv attyanaśnann anyo’bhicākaśīti.
Two birds living together (living in the same Universal Consciousness), united always, never separated, each the friend of the other, known by the same name, closely perch upon the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit of the tree (delving into delusion), while the other simply looks on without eating (remains in the Universal Consciousness) remains not deluded.
Mundaka Upanishad - Chapter III, Khanda 1, Verse/Mantra 2:
तयोरन्यः पिप्पलं स्वाद्वात्य नश्नन्नन्यो अभिचाकशीति ||
dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyā samānaṁ vṛkṣam pariṣasvajātetayor anyaḥ pippalaṁ svādv attyanaśnann anyo’bhicākaśīti.
Two birds living together (living in the same Universal Consciousness), united always, never separated, each the friend of the other, known by the same name, closely perch upon the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit of the tree (delving into delusion), while the other simply looks on without eating (remains in the Universal Consciousness) remains not deluded.
Mundaka Upanishad - Chapter III, Khanda 1, Verse/Mantra 2:
समाने वृक्षे पुरुषो निमग्नोऽनीशया शोचति मुह्यमानः |
juṣṭam yadā paśyaty anyam īśam asya mahimānam iti, vīta-śokah.
Seated on the same tree the individual bird or jiva (identifying with the thought process or the mind) is drowned in grief as it got deluded and identified itself with the ego/mind moving away from the Universal consciousness. This when it beholds the other (bird which is always in the Universal Consciousness) ponders within and becomes aware of its ever present Universal consciousness realizes its own glory and gets freed from grief.
Q) What is sin?
A) Identifying our Self with the thought process is sin. Forgetting our true nature of avyakta, infinite Nothingness is sin.
जुष्टं यदा पश्यत्यन्यमीशमस्य महिमानमिति वीतशोकः ||
samāne vṛkṣe puruṣo nimagno’nīśayā śocati muhyamānaḥ,juṣṭam yadā paśyaty anyam īśam asya mahimānam iti, vīta-śokah.
Seated on the same tree the individual bird or jiva (identifying with the thought process or the mind) is drowned in grief as it got deluded and identified itself with the ego/mind moving away from the Universal consciousness. This when it beholds the other (bird which is always in the Universal Consciousness) ponders within and becomes aware of its ever present Universal consciousness realizes its own glory and gets freed from grief.
Q) What is sin?
A) Identifying our Self with the thought process is sin. Forgetting our true nature of avyakta, infinite Nothingness is sin.
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