The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)

by Eknath Easwaran

But those who combine action with meditation Cross the sea of death through action And enter into immortality Through the practice of meditation. So have we heard from the wise.

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Side by side, those who know the Self and those who know it not do the same thing; but it is not the same: the act done with knowledge, with inner awareness and faith, grows in power.

“As by knowing one lump of clay, dear one, We come to know all things made out of clay

“Whatever you know is just words,” said Sanatkumara, “names of finite phenomena. 23.1 It is the Infinite that is the source of abiding joy because it is not subject to change. Therefore seek to know the Infinite.”

The issue of authority is not, as often in our polarized world, yes or no, but what kind.

the Upanishads challenge us to put in place fundamentally different concepts of who we are, and to build a life of thoughts, of personal habits, of lifestyle, of relationships, of institutions and values, and finally even of foreign policy based on the unity of consciousness rather than on the separateness of biochemical fragments.