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The Spirit of the Upanishads1510
destruction of this ignorance. For knowledge alone, not action which is only
a part of ignorance, is competent to accomplish this result. Nor is it possible
to do away with likes and dislikes so long as ignorance is not done away
with. This is therefore undertaken with the object of destroying ignorance
as well as its effects—this world,—and also of explaining the real philosophy
of Brahman.
Upadesasahasri.
From the senses finding each its own gratification in the objects peculiar to
each, there arises no real happiness, but only a temporary allaying of the
fever of the mind. It is vain, therefore, to grope for any real happiness in
the world of objects. The deluded deceive themselves by imagining every
experience of evil to be so much good; but in birth, death, and limitation,
the wise never fail to perceive the evil that conceals itself under the inviting
form of objects. They find no happiness in things subject to such results.
The smallest happiness, in the real sense of the word, is no way possible in
any thing;—oh! I should become that Self which is all bliss, all existence, all
enlightenment.
Atmapurana.
Knowledge of the Divine dissolves all bonds, and gives freedom from every
kind of misery including birth and death.
Śvetasvataropanishad.
The Creator (Brahma), the Protector (Vishnu), the Destroyer (Siva); the
Consumer, the Sun, the Moon, the Thunder, the Wind, the Sacrifice, and so
on, are terms used by the sages to describe the One Eternal, as they look
at It through the multifarious forms of the intellect;—all my best worship
to that Divine Essence, the destroyer of that ignorance whose form is this
world.
Śankaracharya.