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Part VI: The Teacher.1535
Know that one Self alone with which are bound sky, earth, atmosphere,
mind, and all the vital breaths. Leave aside all other speech. This alone is the
bridge over the gulf of this world to Immortality.
Mundakopanishad.
The Brahmans disown him who knows other than Self as a Brahman. The
Kshatriyas disown him who knows other than Self as a Kshatriya. The people
disown him who knows other than Self as the people. The gods disown him
who knows other than Self as a god. The spirits disown him who knows other
than self as a spirit. Everything disowns that which knows other than Self as
the thing. The Brahmans; the Kshatriyas; the people; the gods; the spirits;
everything;—is Self.
Brhadaranyakopanishad.
That Self which is beyond sin, decay, death, sorrow; which requires no food
nor drink; which is all accomplished desire, all fulfilled thought; should be
looked for, should be inquired after. He gains access to all worlds, has all his
desires fulfilled, who, having known this Self, realizes It fully in himself and all.
Chhandogyopanishad.
Said Yajnavalkya to the Emperor Janaka: The same has been explained by
the Vedas as well: this, indeed, is the eternal glory of him who has realized
The Absolute. It neither grows nor is diminished by doing, or not doing, any
act. The knower knows this very truth. Knowing this, he is not affected by any
Karma whatever, all being as sin to him. The heat of his senses cools down
into that calmness of mind which follows on absence of desire; All kind of
latent attachment leaves him; No conditions disturb him; Ecstasy environs
him,—who knowing thus sees Self in Self, sees the All as Self. No good or
evil touches him; he transcends all good and all evil. The fulfilment or nonfulfilment
of any secular or temporal act affects him not, he having reduced
them all to nothing. He is beyond all form; beyond all desire; beyond all