With OM we go to the End: the silence of Brahman. “Whenever the soul has thoughts of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ it binds itself to the lower self, as a bird with the net of a snare” (101). In truth who knows God becomes God” (81).
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“As rivers flowing into the ocean find their final peace and their name and form disappear, even so the wise become free from name and form and enter into the radiance of the Supreme Spirit who is greater than all greatness. “Abiding in the midst of ignorance but thinking themselves wise and learned, fools aimlessly go hither and thither, like blind led by the blind” (77). The three sounds not in union lead again to life that dies but the wise who merge them into a harmony of union in outer, inner and middle actions becomes steady: he trembles no more” (73). That is why those sages who desire children and the life of the family follow the path of the South….īut those who in search of the inner Spirit follow the spiritual path of the North with steadiness, purity, faith, and wisdom attain the regions of the sun” (68). “Those who worship thinking, ‘We have done sacrifices and pious works’, attain only the regions of the moon and return to life and death. ‘These two’, thought he, ‘will produce beings for me'” (67). He remained in meditation, and then came Rayi, matter, and Prana, life.
“In the beginning, the Creator longed for the joy of creation. “Master, whence came all created beings?” It even may go into trees or plants, according to its previous wisdom and work” (64). “The soul may go to the womb of a mother and thus obtain a new body. Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from death to death” (63). “Who sees the many and not the ONE, wanders on from death to death.Įven by the mind this truth is to be learned: there are not many but only ONE. “I will tell you the Word that all the Vedas glorify, all self-sacrifice expresses, all sacred studies and holy life seek. “Tell me what you see beyond right and wrong, beyond what is done or not done, beyond past and future.” “How unwise is the man who does not give hospitality to a Brahmin! He loses his future hopes, his past merits, his present possessions” (55). Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear” (49). The 19th-century German philosopher Schopenhauer said that reading the Upanishads “has been the consolation of my life, and will be of my death” (qtd.
They share much with what we know to have been Pythagoras’ understanding and that of, perhaps, Socrates, at least as filtered through Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” “Theology may help to make clear our thoughts, but its relation to spiritual vision is that of grammar to living language, or of poetics to soul-uplifting poetry” (26). The Upanishads generally can be considered wisdom literature, or mystical writing. These writings present Hindu philosophy and teachings, and the term “Upanishad” means “sitting down near,” as one would sit near a teacher or master. Some were composed as late as the fifteenth century A.D.” (7). Their number increased with time and about 112 Upanishads have been printed in Sanskrit. “The Upanishads are spiritual treatises of different length, the oldest of which were composed between 800 and 400 B.C.
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