Shukla Yajurveda Mantra blessings to purify our character and karma

व्वाचन्तेशुन्धामिप्प्राणन्तेशुन्धामिचक्षुस्तेशुन्धामिश्र्श्रोत्रन्तेशुन्धामिनाभिन्तेशुन्धामिमेड्ढ्रन्तेशुन्धामि पायुन्तेशुन्धामिचरित्रांस्तेशुन्धामि॥ मं-१४ अ-६॥

vvācanteśundhāmipprāṇanteśundhāmicakṣusteśundhāmiśrśrotranteśundhāminābhinteśundhāmimeḍḍhranteśundhāmipāyunteśundhāmicaritrāṁsteśundhāmi || maṁ-14 a-6||     

We are not taking material object meaning [पादार्थिक अर्थ] of this Mantra. ‘प्प्राणन्तेशुन्धामि’ means to pure our breath or fresh air but its literature meaning is for purifying the soul. ‘व्वाचन्तेशुन्धामि’ means not to purify tounge but to purify our speech by speaking sweet, speaking truth, speaking carefully. ‘चक्षुस्तेशुन्धामि’ menas not to wash-purify eyes but to be vigilant and foresightedness etc. so on and so forth.    

व्वाचन्तेशुन्धामि…vvācanteśundhāmi means to make pure our speech. By this phrase, Veda says whatever you speak should be pure means should have a weight.  Best meaning is to enchant the Devi-Deva mantras before sleep and gain when we wake up in the morning.  We always should speak truth is the way in which we can purify our speech. We should never use satire, bad, fraudulent and vulgar speech instead; we should sweetly speak truth ‘सत्यं वद मधुरं वद’.  The massage is ‘speak sweet, speak truth and be careful when speaking’. 

‘प्प्राणन्तेशुन्धामि... pprāṇanteśundhāmi’ is to make pure our soul heart. We sometimes find people very good sweet speaker but are real culprit at heart. What you speak sould be with pure heart-soul.  There should be true, holy spirit in our act and behaviour. As per Vedic literature there are five winds in our body and we should purify them, then our bodily life and spiritual life can joined the process of moxa. It is said in our Upnishad ‘प्राणं ब्रह्म’. What we speak should be in our heart and mind. If mind, heart and speech working in deliberate differnt way, it drag us to Vikarama is the real massage of this phrase of mantra.      

‘चक्षुस्तेशुन्धामि... cakṣusteśundhāmi’ what you see impact on your speech and spirit is a simple experience of humankind so third phrase is to purify our eyes i.e. our sight. We should always have foresight to see in future to protect us. We should always have foresight for material happiness and thereby in relaxation spiritual awareness. Another meaning is to view & observe lord before sleep and as soon as we awake.  When we see idol of our worshiped lord we should have micro vision or insight to see the virtues and potency power [aura] of god. In the modern era of television-cinema, we should not see such things, serials or episodes that knowingly unknowingly spoil our life and spirit. We always tend to lose our prudence and therefore this kind of mantras are always live to protect us, the only requisite is to have a vision and literature understanding of it. So be always vigilant to yourself and thereby to society as a whole is the massage of this phrase.     

‘श्र्श्रोत्रन्तेशुन्धामि…śrśrotranteśundhāmi’ means to purify our acoustic attribute of material body so that we can hear-learn-visualize far from where we are and can make  join our soul to supreme soul is the real massage. ‘श्रुतं हरति पापानि’ is the phrase means by listening good things our sins are removed means we find our way not to do sins and expiation for what we did. I will put this in support here means by hearing listening to Vedic literature understandings we can develop the process of real learning of spiritual and material awareness of our welfare. We can uplift our standard of living and spirit by listening to this Vedic literature is the massage of this phrase.

‘नाभिन्तेशुन्धामि…nābhinteśundhāmi’ this is very important and its vedic literature meaning is hard to understand but it pointed at yoga maraga [meditation]. Kundlini Yoga is advocated here I think.  Powerfull and qualified guru is required for this so no comments here. The main purpose of this phrase is to protect navel from roundwarms in tropical country like Inida. The navel is mark of detached umbilicus i.e.  the tube that fed us and kept us alive while we were in our mother’s womb. According to Aurveda, the navel is an important site in the human body. Nearly 72,000 subtle nerves or nadis converge in this area.  By the principles of Ayurveda and yoga, either the human body is made up of six chakras, with the Manipura chakra located at the spine directly behind the navel or the solar plexus, depending on the system, while its kshetram, or superficial activation point, is located directly on the navel and represents the element fire. Therefore, its purification is required for moxa marga. According to our Puranas grand lord Shri Brahma is the lord of creation incarnated from the navel of Lord Shri MahaVishnuji which pointing at the creative power of navel. 

‘मेड्ढ्रन्तेशुन्धामि…meḍḍhranteśundhāmi’ means to purify our secret organs in broader sense. Simply we should control our Vikama. We should have a legal consensual sex with one partner to protect our physique from dreadful disease and enhance-develop our metaphysical body for ultimate bliss. It would be apt here to mention the character of Lord Shri Ramji to understand this phrase.  

‘पायुन्तेशुन्धामि... pāyunteśundhāmi’ means to purify our feet-legs. We should go to temple every day to purify legs. The best way to purify our feet is to falling at parent’s feet i.e. to take blessings of our parents & elders. We should always be ready to step forward to take on any works for developments and welfare of society. Lord Shri Ganeshaji does circumambulation of parents lord Shri Shiva-Parvati when asked to do it of earth. This is resembled to incarnation of Shri Vamana of Lord Shri MahaVishnuji where lord take away everything from King Shri Baliji for the welfare and redevelopment of the society in three steps.

‘चरित्रांस्तेशुन्धामि…caritrāṁsteśundhāmi’ we should always ready to purify our character thru which we establish the standard of life like lord Shri Ramji known as marayadapurshottama. When we implement the rest phrases as said above in our life I think our character will automatically be purified.