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maheswari
Lebanon
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 Posted - Apr 24 2012 : 12:58:19 PM
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"The whole is all That. The whole is all this. The whole was born of the whole. Taking the whole from the whole, what remains is the whole.
Maitreyi said: Tell me, O venerable Lord, any means of attaining immortality, of which thou knowest.
Yajnavalkya replied: Verily, not for the sake of the husband, is the husband dear; but for the sake of the Self is the husband dear.
Verily, not for the sake of the universe, the universe is dear; but for the sake of the Self is the universe dear.
Verily, the Self (Atman) is to be seen, heard, reflected and meditated upon. When one sees, hears, reflects and knows the Self, all this is known.
As a lump of salt, when thrown into water, becomes dissolved into mere water, and could not be taken out again (or perceived), but wherever we taste the water, it would have the taste of salt; thus, verily, does this great Being, Infinite, Independent, consisting of nothing but Consciousness, rise from out of these elements and vanish again in them. After death, no knowledge remains. (There is no objective consciousness when there is no individuality.)
For where there is, as it were, duality, the one sees the other, one smells the other, one tastes the other, one salutes the other, one speaks to the other, one hears the other, one thinks of the other, one knows the other.
But, when the Self alone is all this, how should one see another, how should one smell another, how should one taste another, how should one salute another, how should one speak to another, how should one hear another, how should one know another?
how should one know the Knower?"
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karl
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Posted - Apr 24 2012 : 1:26:27 PM
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 this I now know with total clarity. Maybe it's always like that. The universe re discovering its formlessness and it's infinite forms, then forgetting again. |
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from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
