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Part II: The Absolute.1513<br />

best riches, the supremest world, the greatest joy;—the rest of beings live<br />

only by a particle of this bliss.<br />

Brhadaranyakopanishad.<br />

Father, son, mother, nay even the worlds, the Gods, the Vedas are all naught<br />

in The Absolute; the thief is no-thief, the ascetic no-ascetic;—It has no<br />

relation with good or evil. One who has become It is beyond all desires of<br />

the heart. It should not be supposed that (even in sleep) It does not see, for<br />

It does not see though ever seeing; the sight of the seer is never lost, being<br />

eternal, there is nothing other than Itself which It can make the object of Its<br />

seeing.<br />

Brhadaranyakopanishad.<br />

The Absolute is described as “not this,” “not that,” and so on by negatives<br />

only.<br />

Brhadarnyakopanishad.<br />

That is real bliss which has no conditions; in the conditioned there can<br />

be no happiness;—the Unconditioned alone is bliss; try to realize the<br />

Unconditioned (in thyself.)<br />

Chhandogyopanishad.<br />

That is the Unconditioned wherein one does not see another, one does not<br />

hear another, one does not know another; that wherein one sees another,<br />

hears another, knows another, is the Conditioned. The Unconditioned is<br />

immortal, the conditioned is mortal. Oh master! where is this Unconditioned<br />

to be found? Everywhere or nowhere!<br />

Chhandogyopanishad.<br />

Hence is described the Real Self; This Self alone stands above, below, west,<br />

east, south and north; everywhere all is this Self! He who thus sees, thinks

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