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3 The ignorant think the Self can be known By the intellect, but the illumined Know he is beyond the duality Of the knower and the known.
5 “The dreaming mind recalls past impressions. It sees again what has been seen; it hears Again what has been heard, enjoys again What has been enjoyed in many places. Seen and unseen, heard and unheard, enjoyed And unenjoyed, the real and the unreal, The mind sees all; the mind sees all.
6 “When the mind is stilled in dreamless sleep, It brings rest and repose to the body. 7 Just as birds fly to the tree for rest, All things in life find their rest in the Self. 8 Earth, water, fire, air, space, and their subtle Elements, the eyes and what can be seen, The ears and what can be heard, the nostrils And what can be smelled, the palate and what Can be tasted, the skin and what can be touched, The tongue and what can be spoken, The hands and what can be held, the organ Of sex and its object of enjoyment, The organ of excretion and what is Excreted, the feet and what they walk on,
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6 “These three sounds when they are separated Cannot lead one beyond mortality; But when the whole mantram, a, u, and m, Indivisible, interdependent, Goes on reverberating in the mind, One is freed from fear, awake or asleep.
The Upanishads make a careful distinction between the terms pleasure and joy. Pleasure, which mainly comes from sense experience, is transitory and actually quite limited. Joy comes from being in harmony with the creative forces of the universe, with one’s own destiny, and is permanent – one of the main reasons we can tell it apart from pleasure – and has no limits at all.
May my body be strong, my tongue be sweet; May my ears hear always the sound of OM
1 “I have become one with the tree of life. My glory rises like the mountain peak. I have realized the Self, who is ever Pure, all-knowing, radiant, and immortal.”
He who has no form assumed many forms; He who is infinite appeared finite; He who is everywhere assumed a place; He who is all wisdom caused ignorance; He who is real caused unreality. It is he who has become everything. It is he who gives reality to all.
When one realizes the Self, in whom All life is one, changeless, nameless, formless, Then one fears no more. Until we realize The unity of life, we live in fear.
The Self in man and in the sun are one. Those who understand this see through the world And go beyond the various sheaths of being To realize the unity of life.
Happiness is the very nature of the Self; happiness and the Self are not different.
6 The highest state is beyond reach of thought, For it lies beyond all duality. 7 Keep repeating the ancient mantram OM Until it reverberates in your heart.
20 As butter lies hidden within milk, The Self is hidden in the hearts of all. Churn the mind through meditation on it; 21 Light your fire through meditation on it: The Self, all whole, all peace, all certitude.
At first there was neither Being nor Nonbeing. There was not air nor yet sky beyond. What was its wrapping? Where? In whose protection? Was water there, unfathomable and deep? In the beginning Love arose, Which was the primal germ cell of the mind. The seers, searching in their hearts with wisdom, Discovered the connection of Being in Nonbeing.
