ALL THAT CONSTITUTE THE ENJOYABLE, THE ENJOYER AND THE ENJOYMENT IN
THE THREE REALMS - DIFFERENT FROM THEM ALL, "I" THE WITNESS, THE EVER
AUSPICIOUS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. -- KAIVALYOPANISHAD --
IN ME ALONE EVERYTHING IS BORN; IN ME ALONE EVERYTHING EXISTS AND IN
ME EVERYTHING DISSOLVES. I AM THAT NON-DUAL BRAHMAN. - KAIVALYOPANISHAD -
THE UNTHINKABLE, THE UNMANIFEST, THE ONE OF ENDLESS FORMS, THE EVER
AUSPICIOUS, THE PEACEFUL, THE IMMORTAL, THE ORIGIN OF THE VERY CREATOR,
THE ONE WITHOUT A BEGINNING, A MIDDLE AND AN END, THE ONLY ONE,
THE ALL PERVADING, THE KNOWLEDGE, BLISS, THE FORMLESS AND THE
WONDERFUL. - KAIVALYOPANISHAD -
THERE IS ONLY ONE SENTIENT ACTIVE BEING, AMIDST THE MYRIADS OF
INSENTIENT AND INERT. THIS ONE INTELLIGENT BEING ALONE MANIFESTS
AS MANY. ETERNAL PEACE WILL BE ONLY FOR THOSE COURAGEOUS SOULS
WHO FIND OUT THIS AS THEIR SELF, AND NOT INDEED FOR OTHERS -
- BRAHMOPANISHAD -
THAT DIVINE BEING, WHO, THOUGH ONE AND DEVOID OF ANY QUALITY, PROJECTS
VARIOUS FORMS WITH THE HELP OF HIS OWN POWER, FOR HIS OWN INSCRUTABLE
PURPOSE, AND DISSOLVES THE WHOLE WORLD OF DIVERSE FORMS IN HIMSELF
AT THE END; MAY THAT ETERNAL EFFULGENT BEING ENDOW US WITH ENLIGHTEN-
MEND - SVETASWATROPANISHAD -
HE IS A PRINCE AMONG MEN WHO IS ADORNED WITH POISE (SAMA BHAVA).
THAT IS THE SADHANA ACCEPTED BY ALL THE VIRTUOUS SOULS OF THE WORLD.
OH RAMA, THAT PURE SOUL IS BEING PROSTRATED REVERED BY THE BEST OF
MEN AND EVEN SAGES - YOGA VASISHTA -
IN ALL THE VEDAS, I ALONE AM TAUGHT, AND THE KNOWER OF THE
VEDAS ALSO AM I; I AM THE REVEALER OF VEDANTA TOO. I AM UNTOUCHED
BY MERIT OR DEMERIT. I AM BEYOND DESTRUCTION. I HAVE NO BIRTH,
AND NO IDENTITY WITH THE BODY, ORGANS AND THE LIKE.
-KAIVALYOPANIOSHAD-
ANALYSE BY YOUR INTELLECT AND REMOVE THE FALSE NOTION SUCH AS 'I AM
THIS BODY, THE MIND ETC. THEREAFTER, TAKE REFUGE IN THE PURE BEING.
AFTERWARDS, IF YOU WORK, EAT AND DRINK AND LIVE A NATURAL LIFE,
YOU WONT BE BOUND AND YOU WILL BE AN AMANASKA - ONE WITHOUT MIND.
-YOGA VASISHTA-
THE SELF IS TO BE ATTAINED THROUGH VERACITY OF PENANCE, KNOWLEDGE
AND CONTINENCE. CULTIVATE ALL OF THEM CONTINUALLY AND CONSTANTLY.
WHILE ALL THE PURITIES GET DWINDLED THUS, THE ASCETICS OF STAINLESS
MIND BEHOLD HIM - THE RESPLENDENT, PURE SUPREME BEING WITHIN THEIR
BODY. MUNDAKOPANISHAD
ATMA CANNOT BE REALISED UNTIL AND UNLESS EVERYTHING IS FORESAKEN; THEN
WHAT REMAINS - WHAT YOU COME FACE TO FACE WITH - IS THE ATMA. THIS
IS THE OPINION OF THE ANCIENTS. - YOGAVASISHTA -
THE TYAGA ADORED BY GREAT SOULS, IS THE RELINQUISHMENT OF THE WORLD
APPEARANCE. SUCH TYAGA SERVES AS THE CAUSE FOR LIBERATION.
-APAROKSHANABHUTY
ALLAY YOUR HUNGER AS THOUGH YOU ARE HAVING MEDICAL TREATMENT
FOR A DISEASE, AND EAT THE DAILY ALMS YOU GET AS YOU WOULD
WITH THE MEDICINE; NEVER HANKER AFTER A DAINTY DISH; BE SATISFIED
WITH WHAT CHANCE BRINGS YOU. PATIENTLY ENDURE THE PAIRS OF
OPPOSITES LIKE HEAT AND COLD, PLEASURE AND PAIN. NEVER ENGAGE YOURSELF
IN IDLE FRUITLESS TALK, SEEK HOLY INDIFFERENCE AND DETACHMENT, AND
CEASE TAKING SIDES WITH PERSONS, WHETHER OUT OF PITY OR CONTEMPT.
BE EQUINIMOUS ALWAYS. - UPADESA PANCHAKA -
I COMMITED MY FIRST SIN, OH LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, BY ASCRIBING
FORM TO THE FORMLESS; PRAISING WITH LAUDATION THAT WHICH IS
INDESCRIBABLE, I COMMIITTED MY SECOND SIN; LOCATING IN A PARTICULAR
TEMPLE AND LOCALITY, THE GREAT LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, I COMMITTED
MY THIRD SIN. OH LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, PARDON ME FOR MY TRIPLE SINS.
SRI SANKARA
I AM INDEED BRAHMAN, WITHOUT DIFFERENCE, WITHOUT CHANGE, AND AM IN
THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE AND BLISS. I AM NOT, THEREFORE, THE BODY
WHICH IS UNREAL. THIS UNDERSTANDING IS KNOWLEDGE. - APAROKSHANUBOOTHY -
I AM WITHOUT CHANGE, WITHOUT FORM, WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT DECAY.
I AM NOT, THEREFORE, THE BODY WHICH IS UNREAL. THIS IS KNOWLEDGE.
APAROKSHANABOOTHY
I AM WITHOUT DISEASE, WITHOUT APPEARANCE, WITHOUT ALTERNATIVES, ALL
PERVADING; I AM NOT, THEREFORE, THE BODY WHICH IS UNREAL. THIS IS
KNOWLEDGE -DIRECT REALISATIOM-
I AM WITHOUT ATTRIBUTES, WITHOUT ACTION, ETERNAL, ETERNALLY FREE
AND IMPERISHABLE; I AM NOT THEREFORE THE BODY WHICH IS UNREAL.
THIS IS KNOWLEDGE.-SELF REALISATION-
WHEN THE FORM OF ROPE IS UNDERSTOOD, THE APPEARANCE OF SERPANT
DISAPPEARS. sO TOO, WHEN THE ULTIMATE REALITY IS REALISED, THE
UNIVERSE VANISHES.
THE WISE MAN AT ALL TIMES, WOULD ATTENTIVELY MEDITATE UPON HIS OWN
SELF WHICH THOUGH UNSEEN, IS YET THE ONLY REALITY, AND THOUGH
MANIFEST AS THE ETERNAL UNIVERSE, IS YET OF THE NATURE OF SUBJECTIVE
CONSCIOUSNESS.
JUST AS A MOTHER, IN ORDER TO PACIFY HER CHILD THAT HAS BEEN WEEPING
FOR A VERY LONG TIME, PLACES BEFORE IT A GRAPE, A DATE, A MANGO
OR A GOOD PLANTAIN FRUIT, SO WELL, HAS THE UPANISHAD, BY VARIOUS
TEACHING EXPEDIENTS, ENLIGHTEN THE UTTERLY IGNORANT MIND THAT WANDERS
RESTLESSLY IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE FACULTY OF DELUSION ACQUIRED IN
NUMEROUS LIVES. - THE CENTURY OF VERSES -
ONE SHOULD CLEARLY REALISE THE SELF IN ALL BEINGS AND ALL SUCCESSIVE
MULTITUDE OF CREATED BEINGS IN THE SELF. HE SHOULD REPEATEDLY AND
PERSISTENTLY, PERCEIVE ALL THINGS AS THE SELF, HAVING FOR AN EXAMPLE
THE RELATION BETWEEN WATER ABD WAVES. THERE IS ONLY ONE BRAHMAN
WITHOUT A SECOND AS IS DECLARED BY THE VEDANTA. THE MANY DO NOT
IN ANY WAY EXIST; BUT HE WHO SEES THIS UNIVERSE AS MANIFOLD, PASSES
FROM DEATH TO DEATH. - CENTURY OF VERSES - SRI SANKARA -
A WISE PERSON SHOULD NEVER ENQUIRE OF THE UNIVERSE, WHAT IS THIS,
WHAT IS ITS NATURE, HOW WAS IT BORN AND WHAT IS THE CAUSE. HE
SHOULD MERELY THINK OF IT AS DELUSION. - SWAATMANIRUPANAM -
FOR THE WISE THAT REALISE EVERYTHING TO BE BRAHMAN, WHAT IS THERE TO
MEDITATE, WHAT TO SPEAK OR NOT SPEAK, WHAT TO DO OR NOT TO DO
- SWATMANIRUPANAM -
ALL THIS - WHATEVER APPEARS IN THIS UNIVERSE - IS PERVADED BY GOD.
THROUGH SACRIFICING SPIRIT YOU ENJOY HAPPINESS. -ISAVASYA UPANISHAD-
HE WHO SEES ALL BEINGS IN THE SELF, AND THE SELF IN ALL BEINGS
SHRINKS NOT - ISAVASYOPANISHAD -
WHEN THE SELF HAS BECOME ALL THINGS, WHAT SORROW, WHAT DELUSION CAN
THERE BE TO THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS PERCEIVED THIS ONENESS?
-SWATMANIRUPANAM-
IT IS THE EAR OF THE EAR, MIND OF THE MIND, SPEECH OF THE SPEECH
BREATH OF THE BREATH AND EYE OF THE EYE ,,-KENOPANISHAD-
IT IS INDEED OTHER THAN THE KNOWN AND ALSO ABOVE THE UNKNOWN.
IT IS BY WHICH SPEECH IS EXPRESSED, MIND IS MADE TO THINK, EYE
IS MADE TO SEE, EAR IS MADE TO HEAR, BREATH IS MADE TO INHALE -
KNOW THAT AS BRAHMAN AND NOT WHAT PEOPE WORSHIP HERE.KENOPANISHAD
HE WHO DOES NOT CONCEIVE, TO HIM IT IS KNOWN. HE WHO CONCEIVES IT
HE DOES NOT REALLY KNOW. KENOPANISHAD
THE GOOD AND THE PLEASANT APPROACH A MAN; THE WISE PREFERS THE
GOOD TO THE PLEASANT; BUT A FOOL CHOOSES THE PLEASANT FOR ITS
WORLDLY GOOD. KADOPANISHAD
FOOLS STEEPED IN IGNORANCE, WISE IN THEIR OWN CONCEIT AND REGARDING
THEMSELVES AS LEARNED GO ABOUT STAGGERING LIKE BLIND MEN LED BY THE
BLIND. KADOPANISHAD
THE KNOWING SELF IS NEVER BORN NOR DOES IT DIE. IT SPRANG FROM
NOTHING, AND NOTHING SPRANG FROM IT. IT IS UNBORN, ETERNAL, EVERLASTING
AND PRIMEVAL. IT IS NOT SLAIN WHEN THE BODY IS SLAIN.KADOANISHAD
IF THE SLAYER THINKS THAT HE SLAYS OR IF THE SLAIN THINKS THAT
HE IS SLAIN BOTH OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND. HE NEITHER SLAYS NOR
HE IS SLAIN. KADOPANISHAD
SMALLER THAN THE SMALL AND GREATER THAN THE GREAT, THE SELF IS
HIDDEN IN THE HEART OF EVERY CREATURE. A MAN WHO IS FREE FROM
DESIRES, BEHOLD THE GLORY OF THAT SELF THROUGH THE TRANQUILITY OF
HIS MIND AND SENSES, AND BECOME FREED FROM SORROW. KADOPANISHAD
THOUGH SITTING STILL HE TRAVELS FAR; THOUGH LYING DOWN, HE MOVES I AM
UNABLE TO KNOW THAT GOD WHO IS BOTH JOYFUL AND JOYLESS. KADOPANISHAD
THE WISE MAN WHO KNOWS THE SELF AS BODILESS WITHIN THE BODIES
AS THE UNCHANGING AMONG CHANGING THINGS AS GREAT AND ALL PERVADING,
WILL NEVER GRIEVE. KADOPANISHAD
THE SELF CANNOT BE GAINED BY THE VEDA, NOR BY INTELLECTUAL POWER
NOR BY MUCH LEARNING. HE IS TO BE GAINED ONLY BY THE ONE WHOM HE
CHOOSES. TO SUCH A ONE THE SELF REVEALS HIS NATURE.KADOPANISHAD
THE MAN WHO HAS NOT TURNED AWAY FROM HIS EVIL WAYS, WHO IS
NOT TRANQUIL, WHO HAS NO CONCENTRATION OF MIND AND WHOSE MIND IS
NOT AT REST, HE CAN NEVER REACH THIS SELF THROUGH MERE KNOWLEDGE.
KADOPANISHAD
THAT SELF, HIDDEN IN ALL BEINGS, DOES NOT SHINE FORTH BUT IT
IS SEEN BY SUBTLER SEERS THROUGH THEIR SHARP AND SUBTLE INTELLECT.
KADOPANISHAD
THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT SOUND, WITHOUT TOUCH, WITHOUT FORM, WITHOUT
DECAY AND LIKEWISE WITHOUT TASTE, WITHOUT CHANGE, WITHOUT SMELL,
WITHOUT BEGINNING, WITHOUT END, BEYOND THE GREAT AND EVER ABIDING;
BY REALISING IT, ONE IS FREED FROM THR JAWS OF DEATH. KADOPANISHAD
THE SELF-EXISTENT PIERCED THE SENSES OUTWARD, AND SO, ONE LOOKS
OUTWARD AND NOT WITHIN ONESELF. SOME WISE MAN, SEEKING IMMORTALITY,
AND TURNING HIS EYES INWARD, SEES THE INNER SELF. KADOPANISHAD
THAT BY WHICH ONE PERCEIVES FORMS, TASTE, SMELL, SOUND AND TOUCHES
OF LOVE - BY THAT ALONE ONE HAS KNOWLEDGE. WHAT IS THERE THAT
REMAINS UNKNOWN TO IT. THIS VERILY IS THAT. KADOPANISHAD
THAT BY WHICH ONE PERCEIVES THINGS BOTH IN DREAM AND WAKING STATE,
HAVING KNOWN AS THE OMNIPRESENT SELF, THE WISE MAN DOES NOT GRIEVE.
KADOPANISHAD
HE WHO KNOWS THIS LIVING SPIRIT WHICH EXPERIENCES THE OBJECTS, AS
THE LORD OF THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, FEARS NO MORE.KADOPANISHAD
WHATEVER IS HERE THE SAME IS THERE. HE GOES FROM DEATH TO DEATH
WHO SEES ONLY MULTIPLICITY HERE. KADOPANISHAD
IT IS NOT BY ANY UPWARD BREATH OR DOWNWARD BREATH THAT A MORTAL
LIVES, BUT IT IS BY SOME OTHER ON WHICH THESE TWO DEPEND, THAT
MAN LIVES. -KADOPANISHAD-
THE ONE RULER - THE SELF WITHIN ALL BEINGS WHO MAKES HIS ONE
FORM MANIFOLD; THE WISE WHO PERCEIVES HIM WITHIN THEMSELVES - TO
THEM BELONG ETERNAL HAPPINESS. -KADOPANISHAD-
THAT IS IT - IT IS ONLY THUS THEY RECOGNISE THE INDESCRIBABLE
HIGHEST HAPPINESS. HOW THEN CAN I KNOW OF IT, WHETHER IT SHINES
OF ITSELF OR SHINES IN REFLECTION. -KADOPANISHAD-
THE SUN DOES NOT SHINE THERE NOR THE MOON AND THE STARS, NOR THERE
IS LIGHTINGS. HOW THEN COULD FIRE BURN. WHEN HE SHINES, EVERYTHING
SHINES AFTER HIM, BY HIS LIGHT ALL THIS IS LIGHTED. -KADOPANISHAD-
HIS FORM IS NOT TO BE SEEN, NOR ONE BEHOLDS HIM WITH THE EYE. HE
IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE HEART, AND THOUGHTS. -KADOPANISHAD-
WHEN THE FIVE INSTRUMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE STAND STILL TOGETHER WITH
THE MIND, AND THE INTELLECT ITSELF DOES NOT STIR, THAT, THEY SAY,
IS THE HIGHEST STATE. -KADOPANISHAD-
THOSE WHO ARE DEVOTED TO MEDITATION SEE THE POWER OF GOD HIDDEN
IN THEMSELVES. -SWETHASVATROPANISHAD-
HE IS THE ONE CONTROLLER OF EVERYTHING. HE MAKES THE SEED MANIFOLD.
THE WISE WHO PERCEIVES HIM ABIDING IN THEIR SELF, REMAINS IN
PEACE. -SWETHASVATROPANISHAD-
HE WHO ALWAYS ENVELOPS THIS WORLD, WHO IS THE KNOWER AND AUTHOR
OF TIME, WHO IS THE POSSESSOR OF QUALITIES AND OF ALL KNOWLEDGE,
IT IS BY HIS COMMAND THAT THE WORLD OF CREATION UNFOLDS ITSELF
-SWETHASVATROPANISHAD-
IF YOU HAVE ANY DESIRE FOR MUKTHY OR MOKSHA, THROW AWAY THE
VISHAYAS - THE TENDENCIES OF THE INDRIYAS TO GO OUT TOWARDS WORLDLY
OBJECTS - LIKE A POISON. FOR, THE MORE AND MORE YOU SATISFY YOUR
DESIRES, THE MORE AND MORE NEW SPROUTS OF DESIRES COME UP.
-ASHTAVAKRA GEETHA-
YOU ARE NOT THE EARTH, YOU ARE NOT THE WATER, THE FIRE, THE AIR
OR THE EATHER. RECOGNISE THAT YOU ARE THE SAKSHI, WITNESS OF THE
BODY, THE MIND AND THE INTELLECT. YOU ARE THE NON-MOVING, NON-CHANGING,
EVER PRESENT WITNESS. ONLY THIS RECOGNITION WILL GIVE YOU MUKTHY.
-ASHTAVAKRA GEETHA-
IF YOU ARE ABLE TO SEPARATE YOUR BODY FOM THE TRUE PERSONALITY
CENTRE, AND VIEW IT OBJECTIVELY RIGHT NOW YOU CAN BECOME A HAPPYY
MAN, FREE FROM BONDAGE. YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IS ANANDA RIGHT NOW.
TAKE REFUGE IN YOUR TRUE PERSONALITY AND ATTAIN PEACE.
-ASHTAVAKRA GEETHA-
YOU DO NOT BELONG TO ANY CASTE, CREED OR ASRAMAM; YOU ARE
UNATTACHED; YOU HAVE NO FORM; YOU ARE THE WITNESS OF THE HAPPENINGS
AROUND YOU.
-ASHTAVAKRA GEETHA-
DHARMA AND ADHARMA, SUKHA AND DUKKHA ARE OF THE MIND; YOU ARE BEYOND
THEM. YOU ARE NEITHER THE DOER NOR THE ENJOYER; YOU ARE NOT THE
EXPERIENCER; YOU ARE ALWAYS A MUKTHA.
-ASHTAVAKRA GEETHA-
MIND ALONE IS THE CAUSE OF BONDAGE AS WELL AS THE RELEASE OF MAN.
IF YOU ARE ATTACHED TO THE OBJECTS OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD,
YOU ARE BOUND.
TRANSCENDING THE MISERIES OF THE WORLD, AS IF THEY NEVER EXISTED
IN HIS MIND, RECOGNISING THAT LIFE HERE AND HEREAFTER, IS BEREFT
OF ANY JOY, AND TAKING TO THE PATH OF VEDANTA VICHARA AND THEREBY
ABIDING IN THE SPLENDOUR OF THE ATMAN, THE JEEVANMUKTHA SHINES IN
CITY THAT IS THE BODY. -YOGA VASISHTA-
THE SUPREME LORD DWELL IN ALL BEINGS AS THEIR VERY ATMAN; IGNORING
THIS, MORTAL MAN GOES THROUGH THE MOCKERY OF MY WORSHIP IN IDOLS.
THEY, WHO OUT OF PRIDE, STRONGLY HATE OTHERS, LOOKING THEM AS SEPARATE
FROM THEMSELVES, HATE ME WHO DWELLS IN ALL BEINGS ALIKE. HENCE THEY
CAN NEVER ATTAIN PEACE AND TRANQUILITY OF MIND.
SRIMAD BHAGAVATHAM
DESIRELESSNESS, FEARLESNESS, STABILITY, EQUIPOISE, WISDOM, NON-ATTACHMENT,
NON-DOERSHIP, GENTLENESS, DOUBTLESSNESS, WILL - POWER, UNIVERSAL LOVE,
INTELLIGENCE, CONTENTMENT, SOFTNESS OF HEART ANF SPEECH, THESE
QUALITIES DWELL IN A GNANI WHO BEING RID OF VASANAS, IS FREE FROM
THE SENSE OF ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION. -YOGA VASISHTA-
THE MIND-MONKEY WHICH MOVES ABOUT IN THE FOREST, FULL OF CREEPERS
IN THE FORM OF DESIRES, WASTES THE ENTIRE LIFE TIME, JUMPING AIMLESSLY
FROM TREE TO TREE WHICH GROW IN THE FOREST IN THE FORM OF LUST AND
GREED, AND FINALLY GET NOT FRUIT AT ALL; THE MIND-MONKEY DOES NOT GET
THE PURE BLISS OF THE ATMAN. -YOGA VASISHTA-
HE WHO CREATES THIS UNIVERSE IN THE BEGINNING, AND HE WHOM THE VEDAS
GLORIOUSLY PRAISE AND SING ABOUT, IN HIM, I TAKE REFUGE, IN THE
FIRM FAITH AND BELIEF THAT MY INTELLECT MAY SHINE WITH KNOWLEDGE
OF BRAHMAN. -SVETASVATARAOPANISHAD-
BY WHICH THIS UNIVERSE IS PERVADED, BUT WHICH NOTHING PERVADES, BY
WHICH, SHINING, ALL THIS (UNIVERSE) SHINES AS ITS REFLECTION - THIS IS
THAT. - VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
IT IS NEITHER BORN NOR DIES, IT NEITHER GROWS NOR DECAYS, NOR DOES IT
UNDERGO ANY CHANGE, BEING ETERNAL. IT DOES NOT CEASE TO EXIST EVEN
WHEN THE BODY IS DESTROYED, LIKE THE SKY IN A JAR(AFTER IT IS BROKEN)
FOR IT IS INDEPENDENT. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THE SUPREME SELF, DIFFERENT FROM PRAKRITHY AND ITS MODIFICATIONS
ESSENCE OF PURE KNOWLEDGE AND ABSOLUTE, DIRECTLY MANIFESTS THIS
ENTIRE GROSS AND SUBTLE UNIVERSE IN THE WAKING AND OTHER STATES
AS THE SUBSTRATUM (OF THE PERSISTENT SENSE OF EGOISM), AND MANIFESTS
ITSELF AS THE WITNESS OF BUDDHY, THE DETERMINATIVE FACULTY
-VIVEKA CHOODAMANI-
IT IS NOT FOR EVERYTHING, THAT EVERYTHING IS DEAR, BUT FOR THE
SAKE OF SELF, EVERYTHING IS DEAR. -BRIHADARANYOKAPANISHAD-
IF A MAN WORSHIPS ANOTHER DIETY THINKING THAT THE DEITY IS ONE,
AND HE IS ANOTHER, HE DOES NOT KNOW. -BRIHADARANYOKAPANISHAD-
THE SELF IS DEARER THAN MOTHER, DEARER THAN ALL ELSE -
BRIHADARANYOKAPANISHAD-
THIS SELF-EFFULGENT ATMAN WHICH IS DISTINCT FROM THE FIVE SHEATHS, THE
WITNESS OF THE THREE STATES, THE REAL, THE CHANGELESS, THE UNTAINTED,
THE EVER-LASTING BLISS - IS TO BE REALISED BY THE WISE MAN
AS HIS OWN SELF. - VIVEKACHOODAMANI -
THE ATMAN IS A SELF-COGNISED ENTITY BECAUSE IT IS COGNISED BY ITSELF.
HENCE THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL ITSELF IS THE SUPREME BRAHMAN.
VIVEKACHOODAMANI
BRAHMAN IS EXISTENCE, KNOWLEDGE, INFINITY, PURE SUPREME, SELF-EXISTENT
ETERNAL AND INDIVISABLE BLISS, NOT DIFFERENT (IN REALITY) FROM THE
INDIVIDUAL SOUL, AND DEVOID OF INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR. IT IS (EVER)
TRIUMPHANT. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT WHICH IS BEYOND CASTE AND CREED, FAMILY AND LINEAGE, DEVOID
OF NAME AND FORM, MERIT AND DEMERIT, TRANSCENDING SPACE, TIME AND
SENSE OBJECTS - THAT BRAHMAN ART THOU, MEDITATE ON THIS IN
THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT SUPREME BEING WHICH IS BEYOND THE RANGE OF ALL SPEECH, BUT
ACCESSIBLE TO THE EYE OF PURE ILLUMINATION, WHICH IS PURE, THE
EMBODIMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, THE BEGININGLESS ENTITY - THAT BRAHMAN
ART THOU; MEDITATE ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT WHICH IS UNTOUCHED BY THE SIX FOLD WAVE, MEDITATED UPON
BY THE YOGI'S HEART, BUT NOT GRASPED BY THE SENSE OBJECTS, WHICH
THE BUDDHY CANNOT KNOW AND WHICH IS UNIMPEACHABLE, THAT BRAHMAN
ART THOU - MEDITATE ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT WHICH IS THE SUBSTRATUM OF THE UNIVERSE WITH ITS VARIOUS
SUB-DIVISIONS WHICH ARE ALL CREATIONS OF DELUSION, WHICH ITSELF HAS
NO OTHER SUPPORT, WHICH IS DISTINCT FROM THE GROSS AND SUBTLE,
WHICH HAS NO PARTS AND HAS VERILY NO EXEMPLAR - THAT BRAHMAN ART
THOU - MEDITATE ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHUDAMANI-
THAT WHICH IS FREE FROM BIRTH, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, WASTE, DISEASE
AND DEATH, WHICH IS INDESTRUCTIBLE, WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF THE
PROJECTION, MAINTENANCE AND DISSOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE - THAT
BRAHMAN ART THOU, MEDITATE ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT WHICH IS FREE FROM DIFFERENTIATION, WHOSE ESSENCE IS NEVER
NON-EXISTENT, WHICH IS UNMOVED LIKE THE OCEAN WITHOUT WAVES, THE
EVER-FREE, OF INDIVISABLE FORM- THAT BRAHMAN ART THOU - MEDITATE
ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT WHICH THOUGH ONE ONLY, IS THE CAUSE OF THE MANY, WHICH REFUTES
ALL OTHER CAUSES, BUT IS ITSELF WITHOUT CAUSE. DISTINCT FROM MAYA
AND ITS EFFEC - THE UNIVERSE, AND INDEPENDENT - THAT BRAHMAN ART
THOU - MEDITATE ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT WHICH IS FREE FROM DUALITY,WHICH IS INFINITE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE,
DISTINCT FROM THE UNIVERSE AND MAYA, SUPREME AND ETERNAL, WHICH IS
UNDYING BLISS, TAINTLESS - THAT BRAHMAN ART THOU - MEDITATE ON THIS
IN THY MIND. - VIVEKACHOODAMANI -
THAT REALITY (WHICH THOUGH ONE) APPEARS VARIOUSLY OWING TO DELUSION,
TAKING ON NAMES AND FORMS, ATTRIBUTES AND CHANGES, ITSELF ALWAYS
UNCHANGED LIKE GOLD IN THE MODIFICATIONS, THAT BRAHMAN ART THOU -
MEDITATE ON THIS IN THY MIND. -VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
WHEN THE MIND IS DESTROYED BY THE MIND, AND HAS ARRIVED AT THE
STATE DEVOID OF EGOTISM, AND WHEN THOUGHTS HAVE DROPPED DOWN (OR
VANISHED) THROUGH THOUGHT, I REMAIN SELF-ABIDING AND ALONE.
ASSUME ACTIVITIES WITH YOUR SENSES FREE FROM MENTAL IMPRESSIONS. WHAT
YOU DO SOLELY WITH YOUR ORGANS OF SENSES, MOVING AMONG EXISTING
OBJECTS, WITH A MIND FREE FROM ASSOCIATION , THAT IS NOT DONE (i.e., THAT
IS NOT BINDING)
IN THE VAST OCEAN OF BLISS OF MINE THOUSANDS OF BUBBLES - BRAHMANDAM
APPEAR AND DISSOLVE DUE TO THE BREEZE - MAYA
RELIGIOUS RITES ARE FRUITFUL TO ONE DEVOID OF KNOWLEDGE ON ACCOUNT
OF THE STRENGTH OF HIS MENTAL IMPRESSIONS. TO ONE POSSESSED OF
KNOWLEDGE ON ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MENTAL IMPRESSIONS, ALL
RITUALS ARE USELESS.
WHAT IS THE USE OF MANY WORDS. IMAGINATION IS THE GREATEST BONDAGE.
ITS ABSENCE IS FREEDOM.
THE STUPID MAN THINKS HE IS THE BODY, THE BOOK LEARNED MAN IDENTIFIES
HIMSELF WITH THE MIXTURE OF BODY AND SOUL WHILE THE SAGE POSSESSED
OF REALISATION DUE TO THE DISCRIMINATION ('VIVEKA VIGNANAM') LOOKS
UPON THE ETERNAL ATMAN AS HIS SELF AND IS CONTEMPLATIVELY AWARE
"I AM BRAHMAN" -VIVEKA CHOODAMANI-
I AM NEITHER THE MIND, INTELLIGENCE, EGO NOR CHITTA. NEITHER THE
EARS, NOR THE TONGUE NOR THE SENSES OF SMELL AND SIGHT; NEITHER
EATHER NOR AIR NOR FIRE NOR WATER NOR EARTH. I AM ETERNAL BLISS
I AM SHIVA, I AM SHIVA.
I AM NEITHER PRANA NOR THE FIVE VITAL BREATHS; NEITHER THE SEVEN
ELEMENTS OF THE BODY NOR ITS FIVE SHEATHS' NOR HANDS NOR FEET
NOR TONGUE NOR OTHER ORGANS OF ACTION. I AM ETERNAL BLISS - SHIVA
NEITHER GREED NOR DELUSION, LOATHING NOR LIKING HAVE I, NOTHING OF
PRIDE OR EGO OR DHARMA OR LIBERATION NOR OBJECTS FOR ITS DESIRING,
I AM ETERNAL BLISS - SHIVA
NEITHER OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, OF VIRTUE AND VICE ; OF MANTRA OR SACRED
PLACES, OF VEDAS OR SACRIFICE ; NEITHER AM I THE EATER OF FOOD
NOR THE ACT OF EATING. I AM ETERNAL BLISS - SHIVA.
DEATH OR FEAR I HAVE NONE, NOR ANY DISTINCTION OF CASTE, NEITHE FATHER
NOR MOTHER NOR EVEN A BIRTH, HAVE I, NEITHER FRIEND NOR COMRADE
NEITHER DISCIPLE NOR GURU, I AM ETERNAL BLISS - SHIVA
I HAVE NO FORM, THE ALL PERVADING AM I; EVERYWHERE, I EXIST AND
YET, AM BEYOND THE SENSES. NEITHER SALVATION AM I, NOR ANYTHING
TO BE KNOWN. I AM ETERNAL BLISS - SHIVA. (- SIX STANZAS OF NIRVANA-)
I AM SUBTLER THAN THE SUBTLE, LIKEWISE, I AM THE GREATEST OF ALL;
I AM THE MANIFOLD UNIVERSE; I AM THE ANCIENT ONE, THE PURUSHA
AND THE RULER. I AM THE EFFULGENT ONE AND THE ALL BLISSFUL.
-KAIVALYOPANISHAD-
KNOWING THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND THE END OF THE WORLDLY LIFE
TO BE THE SOURCE OF FEAR AND SORROW, AND RENOUNCING ALL THE
RITUALS PERTAINING TO THE MANDATES AND INJUNCTIONS OF RELIGION,
ONE SHOULD MEDITATE UPON THE SELF WHICH IS THE SUPREME SPIRIT
DWELLING IN ALL BEINGS.
IT IS THAT BRAHMAN WHICH IS PEACEFUL, UNBORN, ONE WITHOUT A SECOND,
BEGINNINGLESS AND ENDLESS THAT HAS COME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DELUDED
NOTION OF BEING A JIVA AND SEES MULTIPLICITY IN THE LIMITLESS PURE
CONSCIOUSNESS WHICH IS ITS ORIGINAL AND REAL NATURE. WHEN THE DELUSION
AND SUPERIMPOSITION ARE GONE THROUGH REAL ATMA-GNANA, THE JIVA IS
NO LONGER JIVA, BUT BRAHMAN ITSELF.
IT MOVES AND IT MOVES NOT; IT IS FAR AND LIKEWISE IT IS NEAR
IT IS INSIDE ALL THIS AND IT IS OUTSIDE OF ALL THIS.
-ISAVASYOPANISHAD-
THE EYE DOES NOT GO THERE; THE SPEECH DOES NOT GO NOR THE MIND.
WE DO NOT KNOW, WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND, HOW CAN WE UNDERSTAND ABOUT
IT. -KENOPANISHAD-
THAT WHICH IS NOT EXPRESSED THROUGH SPEECH, BUT THAT BY WHICH
SPEECH IS EXPRESSED, KNOW THAT AS BRAHMAN AND NOT WHAT PEOPLE
WORSHIP HERE. -KENOPANISHAD-
WHEN IT IS KNOWN THROUGH EVERY CONSCIOUS STATE, IT IS RIGHTLY
KNOWN, AND ONE ATTAINS ETERNAL LIFE THEREBY, THROUGH HIS OWN SELF
HE GAINS STRENGTH, AND THROUGH HIS KNOWLEDGE, IMMORTALITY.
-KENOPANISHAD-
LOOK BACK TO HOW IT WAS WITH THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE, LOOK
FORWARD TO HOW IT WILL BE WITH THOSE WHO COME HEREAFTER. A MORTAL
RIPENS LIKE CORN; LIKE CORN HE SPRINGS UP AGAIN. -KADOPANISHAD-
THE WISE MAN SHOULD DRAW HIS SPEECH INTO HIS MIND, HIS MIND
INTO UNDERSTANDING, HIS UNDERSTANDING TO THE GREAT SOUL AND THE
GREAT SOUL INTO SILENT SELF.
THAT WHICH IS WITHOUT SOUND, WITHOUT TOUCH, WITHOUT FORM, WITHOUT
DECAY AND LIKEWISE WITHOUT TASTE, WITHOUT CHANGE, WITHOUT SMELL,
WITHOUT BEGINNING, WITHOUT END, BEYOND THE GREAT AND EVER ABIDING
BY REALISING IT ONE IS FREED FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH.
-KADOPANISHAD-
HE WHO HAS NEITHER BEGINNING NOR END, WHO IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS,
HAS CREATED ALL THINGS AND WHO, HAVING MANY FORMS, PERVADES ALONE
THE UNIVERSE, KNOWING HIM, ONE IS FREE FROM ALL FETTERS.
SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
IT IS NEITHER FEMALE NOR MALE NOR IS IT NEUTER; WHATEVER BODY
IT TAKES, WITH THAT IT IS JOINED. -SWETH..-UPANISHAD-
THIS LIVING SOUL IS TO BE KNOWN AS A PART OF THE HUNDREDTH PART
OF THE POINT OF A HAIR DIVIDED A HUNDREDFOLD, AND YET, IT IS
POTENTIALLY INFINITE. -SWETHA--UPANISHAD-
THAT WHICH IS HIDDEN IN THE MYSTIC UPANISHADS OF THE VEDAS - BRAHMA
KNOWS IT IS THE SOURCE OF HIMSELF, THE GODS AND SEERS OF OLD
WHO KNEW IT CAME TO PARTAKE OF ITS NATURE, AND BECAME IMMORTAL.
-SWETH..UPANISHAD-
HE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL DEVELOPING EACH ACCORDING TO ITS NATURE
AND BRINGING INTO MATURITY ALL THAT CAN BE DEVELOPED. HE IS THE
ONE WHO DISTRIBUTES ALL QUALITIES, AND RULES OVER THE WHOLE WORLD.
-SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
HIS FORM CANNOT BE SEEN, NO ONE SEES HIM WITH THE EYE. THOSE WHO,
THROUGH THE HEART AND THE MIND KNOW HIM WHO IS ABIDING IN THE
HEART, BECOME IMMORTAL. -SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
WHEN THE DARKNESS IS GONE THEN THERE IS NEITHER DAY NOR NIGHT,
NEITHER BEING NOR NON-BEING. THE BLESSED LORD (SIVA) ALONE IS
THERE. THAT IS THE ETERNAL ADORABLE LIGHT OF SAVITR, AND FROM
THAT HAS PROCEEDED THE ANCIENT WISDOM. -SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
THAT GOD IS THE MAKER OF ALL THINGS - THE GREAT SELF WHO IS
ALWAYS DWELLING IN THE HEART OF MAN LIMITED BY THE HEART, THE
THE UNDERSTANDING AND THE MIND. THEY WHO KNOW IT BECOME IMMORTAL.
-SWETHA...UPANISHAD-
THE BLESSED LORD WHO IS HIDDEN IN ALL BEINGS WHO IS EXCEEDINGLY FINE
LIKE THE FILM OVERE THE MELTED BUTTER, THE GOD WHO ALONE PERVADE
THE UNIVERSE - BY KNOWING HIM, ONE IS FREE FROM ALL BONDS.
-SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
HE IS INDEED THE GUARDIAN OF THIS WORLD IN TIME, THE LORD OF
ALL, HIDDEN IN ALL THINGS. IN HIM ARE UNITED THE SEERS OF
BRAHMAN AS WELL AS THE GODS. BY KNOWING HIM, ONE CUTS THE
CORDS OF DEATH. -SWETHA....UPANISHAD-
HE WHO IS SUBTLER THAN THE SUBTLEST, WHO IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS
HAS CREATED ALL THINGS OF MANIFOLD FORMS, WHO ALONE ENVELOPES
EVERYTHING - BY KNOWING HIM AS THE AUSPICIOUS LORD, ONE ATTAINS
PEACE FOR EVER. -SWETHA...UPANISHAD-
SUBTLER THAN THE SUBTLE, GREATER THAN THE GREAT, THE SELF IS
HIDDEN IN THE HEART OF THE CREATIONS. BY THE GRACE OF GOD, ONE
SEES HIM WHO IS ACTIONLESS, SEES HIS MAJESTY, AND BECOMES FREED
FROM SORROW. -SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
THAT WHICH IS BEYOND THE WORLD, IS WITHOUT FORM AND SUFFERING,
THOSE WHO KNOW IT BECOME IMMORTAL; OTHERS SUFFER MISERY.
-SWETHA--UPANISHAD-
THE WHOLE WORLD IS FILLED BY THIS PURUSHA, TO WHOM THERE IS
NOTHING SUPERIOR, FROM WHOM THERE IS NOTHING DIFFERENT, THAN WHOM
THERE IS NOTHING SMALLER OR LARGER, AND WHO STANDS ALONE FIXED
LIKE A TREE IN THE SKY. -SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
HIGHER THAN THIS, IS THE SUPREME, INFINITE BRAHMAN HIDDEN IN THE
BODIES OF CREATURES - THE ONE ENVELOPING THE UNIVERSE, KNOWING
HIM TO BE THE LORD, ONE BECOMES IMMORTAL. -SWETHA..UPANISHAD-
WHAT IS SUNG IN THE VEDAS IS THE HIGHEST BRAHMAN; IN IT, THERE
IS THE TRIAD; AND IT IS THE FIRM SUPPORT; IT IS IMPERISHABLE;
THE KNOWER OF BRAHMAN, BY KNOWING WHAT IS THEREIN, BECOME DEVOTED
TO IT, AND IS MERGED IN BRAHMAN, BEING FREED FROM BIRTH.
-SWETHA...UPANISHAD-
THOSE WHO WERE DEVOTED TO MEDITATION AND CONCENTRATION, SAW THE
POWER OF GOD HIMSELF HIDDEN IN ITS OWN QUALITIES. HE IS THE
ONE WHO PRESIDES OVER ALL THE CAUSES FROM TIME TO THE SOUL.
-SWETHA...UPANISHAD-
IN THAT STATE (ENLIGHTENED STATE), A FATHER IS NO FATHER, A
MOTHER IS NO MOTHER, THE WORLDS ARE NO WORLDS, THE GODS ARE
NO GODS, AND THE VEDAS ARE NO VEDAS. IN THAT STATE, A THIEF IS
NO THIEF, A MENDICANT IS NO MENDICANT, AN ASCETIC IS NO ASCETIC.
HE IS NOT FOLLOWED BY GOOD, HE IS NOT FOLLOWED BY EVIL FOR THAT,
HE HAS PASSED BEYOND ALL THE SORROWS OF THE HEART.
-BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD-
THAT IMPERISHABLE IS THE UNSEEN SEER, THE UNHEARD HEARER THE UNTHOUGHT
THINKER, THE UNKNOWN KNOWER. THERE IS NO OTHER SEER BUT HE; NO
OTHER HEARER BUT HE, THERE IS NO OTHER KNOWER BUT HE. IT IS IN
THIS IMPERISHABLE, THAT SPACE IS WOVEN LIKE WARP AND WOOF.
-BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD-
HE WHO DWELLS IN ALL BEINGS AND IS WITHIN ALL BEINGS, WHOM THE BEINGS
DO NOT KNOW , WHOSE BODY ALL BEINGS ARE, WHO CONTROLS ALL BEINGS
FROM WITHIN - HE IS YOUR SELF, THE INNER CONTROLLER, THE IMMORTAL.
-BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD-
VERILY, IT IS NOT FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING IS DEAR,
BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE SELF, EVERYTHING IS DEAR.
-BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD-
IT IS THE SELF THAT SHOULD BE SEEN, HEARD OF, REFLECTED ON AND
MEDITATED UPON. VERILY WHEN THE SELF IS SEEN, HEARD OF, REFLECTED ON
AND UNDERSTOOD, ALL THIS IS KNOWN. -BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD-
AS A BIRD TIED BY A STRING FLIES FIRST IN EVERY DIRECTION AND
FINDING NO RESTING PLACE EXCEPT THE PLACE WHERE IT IS BOUND, THE MIND
ALSO FLYING IN VARIOUS DIRECTION AND FINDING NO RESTING PLACE,
SETTLES DOWN IN THE VITAL BREATH, FOR THE MIND IS BOUND TO THE
VITAL BREATH. -CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD-
JUST AS BY ONE CLOD OF CLAY ALL THAT IS MADE OF CLAY IS KNOWN,
THE DIFFERENCE BEING ONLY A NAME ARISING FROM SPEECH, WHILE THE TRUTH
IS THAT IT IS JUST CLAY. -CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD-
VERILY, ALL THIS IS BRAHMAN; LET A MAN MEDITATE ON IT IN
TRANQUILITY AS THAT FROM WHICH HE CAME FORTH TO WHICH HE SHALL
RETURN AND IN WHICH HE BREATHS. VERILY, A MAN IS WHAT HE
MEDITATES. -CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD-
HE WHO CONSISTS OF MIND, WHOSE FORM IS LIGHT, WHOSE WILL IS TRUTH
WHOSE SOUL IS SPACE, WHO CONTAINS ALL WORKS, ALL DESIRES, ALL ODOURS,
ALL TASTES AND WHO PERVADES THE WHOLE WORLD - SILENT AND UNMOVED.
-CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD-
HAVING PERFORMED PENANCE, HE UNDERSTOOD THAT BLISS IS BRAHMAN AND IT
IS FROM BLISS THAT THOSE BEINGS ARE BORN. - TAITREEYA UPANISHAD-
THAT WHICH DOES NOT COGNISE EITHER INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL OBJECTS,
WHICH IS NOT A MASS OF COGNITION, WHICH IS NEITHER COGNITIVE NOR
NON-COGNITIVE, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE SEEN, WHICH CANNOT BE DESCRIBED
WHICH CANNOT BE GRASPED, WHICH HAS NO DISTINCTIVE MARKS, WHICH
CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF, WHICH CANNOT BE DESIGNATED, THAT OF WHICH
THE ESSENCE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONENESS OF THE SELF, THAT
IN WHICH THE WORLD CEASES TO EXIST, THE PEACEFUL, THE BENIGN, THE
NON-DUAL - SUCH THEY THINK, IS THE FOURTH QUARTER. THAT IS ATMAN;
THAT IS TO BE KNOWN.
THE WORLD IS NOTHING BUT A CREATION OF SANKALAPAS; IT EXISTS ONLY IN
OUR IMAGINATION, COGITATION AND RUMINATION. RID OF SANKALPAS - THESE
USELESS IMAGINATIONS- THE NOTIONS OF SORROW AND PLEASURE WILL GO.
NIRVIKALPA COMES, AND YOU HAVE ABIDING SHANTI. -YOGAVASISHTA-
THE VERY COMING INTO EXISTENCE OF THE MIND IS REAL DESTRUCTION.
THE REAL GLORY IS IN KILLING THE MIND. THE CHAIN THAT BINDS US
IS AGNANA. - YOGA-VASISHTA-
WITHOUT SOMETHING THAT EXISTS, CAN THERE BE NOTIONS OF EXISTENCE.
FREE OF THOUGHTS IT IS THERE, THE INNER BEING NAMED THE HEART.
HOW THEN TO CONCEIVE IT, IS THE QUESTION. TO CONCEIVE IT, IS TO BE
IT, IN THE HEART. -SAT DARSANA -
SOUND AND FORM, SMELL, TOUCH AND TASTE, THESE MAKE UP THE WORLD.
UPON THEM, THE SENSES LET THE LIGHT. IN MIND'S DOMAIN, THE SENSES
MOVE. HENCE, THE WORLD IS NOTHING BUT THE MIND. SAT-DARSANA-
GOD, WPRLD AND SOUL - FROM THIS TRIPLE TRUTHS, ALL RELIGIONS PROCEED.
WHILE THE EGO REIGNS, THE THREE ARE APART. TRANSCENDING ALL STATES,
IS THE POISE OF SELF, WHERE THE EGO IS LOST.
ALL THIS IS THE REAL, THE CONSCIENT THE DELIGHT; NO, IT IS THE
REVERSE; SUCH ARE QUARRELS VAIN. AGREEABLE TO ALL, FROM UNCERTAINITY
ALOOF, IS THE STATE EXALTED WHERE THE EGO LIVES NOT, NOR THE WORLD
IS SEEN.
THE EGO THAT SPROUTS ON THE SELF, EXPRESSES ITSELF COVERING UP THE
SELF, AS THE CLOUDS THAT ARE CAUSED BY THE RAYS OF THE SUN, HOVER
ABOVE COVERING UP THE SUN ITSELF.
WHEN THE CHITTA TOTALLY DISINTEGRATES AS THE RESULT OF THE
DISSIPATION OF THE MENTAL TENDENCIES , THE THICK DARK CLOUDS OF
SAMSARA ALSO DISSIPATE. THEN THE ONE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS WHICH IS
THE UNBORN, ORIGINAL CAUSE, THE ALL PERVADING REALITY, REVEALS ITSELF
WITHIN, AS THE SARAT SKY REVEALS ITSELF WHEN THE CLUDS MOVE OFF.
-YOGAVASISHTA-
TRANSCENDING THE INNERMOST SELF, THE PRIMEVAL PURUSHA WHOSE ESSENCE
IS THE CONSTANT REALISATION OF INFINITE BLISS, WHICH IS EVER THE
SAME, YET REFLECTING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT MENTAL MODIFICATIONS
AND COMMANDED. BY WHICH THE ORGANS AND PRANA PERFORM THEIR FUNCTIONS.
-VIVEKACHOODAMANI-
THAT BEYOND WHICH THERE IS NOTHING, WHICH SHINES ABOVE MAYA, WHICH
IS SUPERIOR TO ITS EFFECTS-THE UNIVERSE-, THE INMOST SELF OF ALL,
FREE FROM DIFFERENTIATION, THE REAL SELF, THE EXISTENCE, KNOWLEDGE
BLISS, ABSOLUTE, INFINITE AND IMMUTABLE BRAHMAN.
TO ME THERE IS NO DESIRE FOR THE CONTINUANCE
OF ENJOYMENT NOR FOR THE ABANDONING OF ENJOY-
MENT. WHATEVER COMES, LET IT COME; WHATEVER DEPARTS
LET IT GO.
PERFORM YOUR DUTIES DWELLING IN YOGA, RELIQUISHING
ATTACHMENT TO SUCCESS AND FAILURE. EQUANIMITY IS
CALLED YOGA. - B.GEETHA -
ENDOWED WITH EQUANIMITY, ONE SHEDS IN THIS LIFE
BOTH GOOD AND EVIL. THEREFORE EXERT YOURSELF FOR
THIS YOGA OF EQUANIMITY. SKILL IN ACTION LIES IN
THE PRACTICE OF THIS YOGA. -B.GEETHA-
SENSE OBJECTS CEASE FOR HIM WHO DOES NOT ENJOY THEM
WITH HIS SENSES; BUT THE TASTE FOR THEM PERSISTS.
THIS RELISH ALSO DISAPPEARS IN THE CASE OF MAN OF
STABLE MIND WHEN HE SEES THE SUPREME. -B.GEETHA-
MAN IS BOUND BY SHACKLES OF KARMA, ONLY WHEN ENGAGED
IN ACTIONS OTHER THAN WORK PERFORMED FOR THE SAKE
OF SACRIFICE. -B.GEETHA-
ALL ACTIONS ARE BEING DONE BY THE MODES OF PRAKRITHY.
THE FOOL WHOSE MIND IS DELUDED BY EGO, CONSIDERS HIMSELF
TO BE THE DOER. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHO SEES INACTION IN ACTION, AND ACTION IN INACTION,
IS WISE AMONG MEN; HE IS A YOGI. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHO IS CONTENTED WITH WHATEVER IS GOT UNSOUFGT,
FREE FROM JEALOUSY AND HAS TRANSCENDED ALL PAIRS OF
OPPOSITES (LIKE JOY AND GRIEF) AND IS BALANCED IN
SUCCESS AND FAILURE, SUCH A KARMAYOGI, THOUGH ACTING IS
NOT BOUND. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHOSE ATTACHMENT HAS GONE, WHOSE MIND IS ESTABLISHED
IN KNOWLEDGE AND WHO WORKS FOR THE SACRIFICE, ALL ACTIONS
OF THAT MAN MELT AWAY. -B.GEETHA-
THE LORD DETERMINES NOT THE DOERSHIP NOR THE DOING
OF BEINGS, NOR EVEN THEIR CONTACT WITH THE FRUITS OF
ACTIONS. IT IS NATURE THAT FUNCTIONS. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHO WITH REASON, ,IS FIRM AND FREE FROM DOUBT, REJOICES NOT
ON OBTAINING WHAT IS AGREEABLE, AND DOES NOT FEEL PERTURBED
ON MEETING WITH THE UNPLEASANT, THAT KNOWER OF BRAHMAN, LIVES
ETERNALLY IN IDENTITY WITH IT. -B.GEETHA-
ONE SHOULD LIFT ONESELF BY ONE'S OWN EFFORTS AND SHOULD NOT
DEGRADE ONESELF, FOR, ONE'S OWN SELF IS ONE'S FRIEND, AND ONE'S
OWN SELF, IS ONE'S ENEMY. -B.GEETHA-
THE YOGI WHO IS UNITED IN IDENTITY WITH THE ALL PERVADING
INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS AND LOOKS ON ALL WITH AN EQUAL EYE,
SEES THE SELF PRESENT IN ALL BEINGS, AND ALL BEINGS EXISTING
IN THE SELF. -B.GEETHA-
THOSE DEVOTEES WHO KNOWING NO ONE ELSE CONSTANTLY THINK OF ME
AND WORSHIP ME IN A DISINTERESTED WAY, TO THOSE EVER UNITED
IN THOUGHT WITH ME, I BRING FULL SECURITY AND PERSONALLY ATTEND
TO THEIR NEEDS. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHO TAKES PRAISE AND REPROACH ALIKE, WHO IS GIVEN TO
CONTEMPLATION AND CONTENT WITH WHATEVER COMES UNASKED FOR
AND DEVOTION TO ME, THAT MAN IS DEAR TO ME. -B.GEETHA-
VERILY HE IS THE SEER WHO SEES THE SUPREME LORD AS THE
ONLY IMPERISHABLE SUBSTANCE ABIDING EQUALLY IN ALL PERISHABLE
BEINGS. -B.GEETHA-
HE REALLY SEES WHO SEES ALL ACTIONS BEING DONE ONLY BY NATURE,
AND THE SELF AS THE NON-DOER, -B.GEETHA-
WHEN THE SEER DOES NOT SEE ANY AGENT OTHER THAN THE THREE
GUNAS, AND KNOWS ME WHO STAND BEYOND THESE GUNAS, HE ENTERS
INTO MY BEING. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHO SITTING LIKE A WITNESS, IS NOT MOVED BY THE GUNAS, AND WHO
KNOWING THAT ONLY THE GUNAS ACT, REMAINS ESTABLISHED IN GOD, AND
IS NEVER SHAKEN FROM THE STATE. -B.GEETHA-
HE WHO TAKES SORROW AND JOY ALIKE, IS ESTABLISHD IN THE SELF,
REGARDS A CLOTH, A STONE AND A PIECE OF GOLD AS EQAL IN VALUE,
RECEIVE BOTH PLEASANT AND UNPLEASANT THINGS IN THE SAME SPIRIT,
AND VIEWS CENSURE AND PRAISE ALIKE. -B.GEETHA-
FIX YOUR MIND ON ME, BE DEVOTED TO ME, WORSHIP ME AND BOW
TO ME, SO, SHALL YOU WITHOUT DOUBT, REACH ME. -B.GEETHA-
