It deals with the cultural phenomenon of a Sannyasi or Hindu monk, a practitioner of Sannyasa or renunciation. The Upanishad also outlines the character and lifestyle of a Paramahamsa, the monk who has achieved the highest state of spirituality. The text is told as a sermon from the god Prajapati, identified with Brahma in some commentaries to the sage Aruni, who gives his name to this Upanishad. By what means, O Lord, can I give up rituals completely? — Aruni Upanishad Chapter 1 Prajapati tells him to relinquish all relationships, sons, brothers, sisters, friends etc. as well as external symbols like the a hair tuft and the sacred thread. He must also give up on the Vedic recitation and all mantra chanting, everything in the entire universe that he is attached to. Take up a garment and a staff, states the text, then begin the journey of renunciation. Prajapati also tells Aruni to abandon the seven upper realms of the universe - Bhur, Bhuvah, Svar, Mahas, Jana, Tapas, Satya, and the seven lower realms of Atala, Patala, Vitala, Sutala, Rasatala, Mahatala, Talatala, and egg of creation of the world. The upper realms are opened by the seven main chakras. The lower realms are opened by meditation, with soulmate. Together there are 28 hemispheres, divided between male and female, 14 chakras, plus 2 more for ishwar and ishwari, watching all 30 hemispheres. Give up all material things of life to seek. Sannyasi promise to self: All beings are safe from me, I shall not be a source of fear for any living being, for everything has proceeded from me. — Aruni Upanishad Chapter 3 Ultimately, he abandons his Palasa, Bilva, Udumbara staff, his deerskin, his girdle, his string. He who knows this, hymn from Rig Veda 1.22.20-1.22.21, conquers: And the highest step of Vishnu The sages always see Like an eye stretched across the sky That highest step of Vishnu The wise men ever vigilant, Light up with joyous praise. — Aruni Upanishad, Chapter 5 Interestingly enough, while writing the Upanishads, I saw Vishnu in the dream state with Lakshmi, as the owner of the deep sleep realms. Hiranyagarbha Hiranyagarbha literally means the 'golden womb' or 'golden egg', poetically translated as 'universal germ', is the source of the creation of universe or the manifested cosmos in Vedic philosophy, as well as an avatar of Vishnu in the Bhagavata Purana. It is a personification of Vishnu, in Atman form, however the Spirit. It finds mention in one hymn of the Rigveda (RV 10.121), known as the Hiranyagarbha Sukta, suggesting a single creator deity yo deveṣv adhi deva eka asit, Griffith: "He is the God of gods, and none beside him", identified in the hymn as Prajapati. The concept of the "golden womb" is again mentioned in the Vishvakarman Sukta. The experience is a repetitive pattern, having visioned Hiranyagarbha in Brahmananda ashram in 2012 where Brahmananda is Prajapati, also a repetitive pattern of creation, migration of the soul, or Hamsa, to present day, validated by sound of silence and yogic prana where the visions are possible to see. The Upanishad calls it the Soul of the Universe or Brahman, and elaborates that Hiranyagarbha floated around in emptiness and the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, and then broke into two halves which formed the Svarga (matrix) or Shiva and the Earth, or Parvati. The division done on the soul level, so soulmate can be established. The comparison is to a single cell worm, which holds the trinity, soul, male and female counterparts in one single DNA strand. The manifestation of the soul then takes over space, as the house, baytullah. The correlation is also defined in the vedas, when Indra and Agni play in the astral, Indra comes from the heavens below, Agni comes from the earth above. Where they meet is called sva-shakti, a place of abundance of energy, from all three worlds, astral, earth and underworld. Hiranyagarbha is also a sacrifice, where it is known as Hiranyagarbha Yagna. This sacrifice was performed by the founder of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, Dantidurga, to confer Kshatriya Hood on himself, as he was not born a Kshatriya, and in olden days, the caste system in India was very prevalent and he was not accepted by the people as their King, until he conferred Kshatriya Hood upon himself. The sacrifice is also similar to taking all the human beings in the world, within one nadam and bindu cell, as the father and mother of creation, to share the knowledge, and connect with everyone through Brahman, from the inside, rather outside, as we are all connected through the micro cell structures. Some classical yoga traditions consider Hiranyagarbha as the originator of yoga, though this may also be a name for Rishi Kapila. Matsya Purana (2.25-30) gives an account of initial creation. After Mahapralaya, the great dissolution of the Universe, there was darkness everywhere. Everything was in a state of sleep. There was nothing, either moving or static. Then Svayambhu, self-manifested Being arose, which is a form beyond senses. It created the primordial waters first and established the seed of creation into it. The seed turned into a golden womb, Hiranyagarbha. Then Svayambhu entered in the egg. The nomena is similar to a yogi having an inward experience, seeing the divine blue prints, making the modification, by following the rules, but upgrading slightly, once the work is done, jumping into that state of creation and live like a human being, because all human beings are created in the image of God. The Samkhya school holds that there are only two primary principles, Purusha and Prakriti, and creation is only a manifestation or evolution of the constituents of Prakriti due to the action of Purusa's Consciousness. The Bhagavata states that Narayaṇa alone was in the beginning, who was the pious of principles of creation, sustenance, and dissolution, also known as the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) - the Supreme Hari, multi-headed, multi-eyed, multi-footed, multi-armed, multi-limbed. This was the Supreme Seed of all creation, subtler than the subtlest, greater than the greatest, larger than the largest, and more magnificent than even the best of all things, more powerful, than even the wind and all the gods, more resplendent than the Sun and the Moon, and more internal than even the mind and the intellect. He is the Creator, the Supreme. The term can also mean as He who, having become first the Creator, has come to be considered as the womb of all objects. However, with Lakshmi. The Hiranyagarbha Sukta of the Rigveda declares that God manifested Himself in the beginning as the Creator of the Universe, encompassing all things, including everything within Himself, the collective totality, as it were, of the whole of creation, animating it as the Supreme Intelligence. God is the beginning, whereas the individual souls contribute to It’s Divinity, enlarging the Universe. In the beginning was the Divinity in his splendour, manifested as the sole Lord of land, skies, water, space and that beneath and He upheld the earth and the heavens. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? It is that who bestows soul-force and vigor, whose guidance all men invoke, the Devas invoke whose shadow is immortal life and death. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? It is that who by His greatness became the One King of the breathing and the seeing, who is the Lord of man and bird and beast. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? It is that through whose glory the snow-clad mountains rose, and the ocean spread with the river, they say. His arms are the quarters of the sky. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? It is that through whom the heaven is strong and the earth firm, who has steadied the light and the sky's vault, and measured out the sphere of clouds in the mid-region. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offering? It is that to whom heaven and earth, placed in the light by his grace, look up, radiant with the mind while over them the sun, rising, brightly shines. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? When the mighty waters came, carrying the universal germ, producing the flame of life, then dwelt there in harmony the One Spirit of the Devas. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? It is that who in its might surveyed the waters, conferring skill and creating worship - That, the God of gods, the One and only One. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? Mother of the world - may that not destroy us who with Truth as his Law made the heavens and produced waters, vast and beautiful. Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings? Lord of creation! No one other than thee pervades all these that have come into being. May that be ours, for which our prayers rise, may we be masters of many treasures! 1. HIRANYAGARBHA was present at the beginning ; when born, he was the sole lord of created beings; he upheld this earth and heaven, -let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 2. (To him) who is the giver of soul, the giver of strength, Whose commands all (beings), even the gods obey, Whose shadow is immortality, whose (shadow) is death, -let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 3. (To him) who, by his greatness, has verily become the sole king of the breathing and seeing world, who rules over this aggregate of two-footed and four-footed beings,- let us offer Worship with an oblation to the divine. 4. Through whose greatness these snow-clad (mountains exist), whose property men call the ocean with the rivers, whose are these quarters of space, whose are the two arms, --let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 5. By whom the sky was made profound and the earth solid, by Whom heaven and the solar sphere were fixed, who was the measure of the water in the firmament,- let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 6. Whom heaven and earth established by his protection, and, shining brightly, regarded with their mind, in whom the risen sun shines forth, -let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 7. When the vast waters overspread the universe containing the germ and giving birth to AGNI, then was produced the one breath of the gods, -let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 8. He who by his might beheld the waters all around containing the creative power and giving birth to sacrifice, he who among the gods was the one supreme god,- let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 9. May he do us no harm who is the parent of the -earth, or who the unerring support (of the world) begat the heaven, and who generated the vast and delightful waters, -let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine. 10. No other than thou, PRAJAPATI, hast given existence to all these beings ; may that object of our desires for which we sacrifice to thee be ours, may we be the possessors of riches. Hiranyagarbha | yoga citta vrtti nirodhah