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The Spirit of the Upanishads1540
Dadhyangatharvana thus described this “Divine Honey” to the
Asvinikumaras; the seer telling what he saw, describing It as taking on a
separate form with every form. The ever-effulgent is understood to take on
many forms through illusion solely for the purpose of self-realization.
Brhadaranyakopanishad.
The one who is self-enlightened, becomes everything from the highest to
the lowest; becomes the many in dreams, and as it were, enjoys all pleasures,
laughs a hearty laugh with friends, or feels the sense of fear on seeing cause
for it.
Brhadaranyakopanishad.
In dreams there are in reality no chariots; no horses, not even the course
on which the chariot may run; and yet all these are mentally created in a
moment. There are in reality no joys; no pleasures; no delights; and yet all
are mentally seen and felt at the instant. There are in reality no ponds, no
lakes, no rivers; and yet all are there at the merest thought. This power of
evolving any number of forms from Itself is the Creative Power of the One.
Brahadaranyakopanishad.
This, therefore, is the Truth. As from fire well lighted, fiery sparks flow off in
all directions by the thousand, so do all beings of every variety come out,
oh good one! from the ever Immutable, and are resolved also into the same.
It is the self-illumined, formless, Spirit, all within and all without; unborn;
without breath; without mind; above all conditions; beyond the eternal
cause of the phenomenal.
Mundakopanishad.
Camphor and the like never cease to emit fragrance, though kept in any
place whatever. The whole of the phenomenal may, in the same manner, be
seen in that which is all consciousness. As the bracelet is in the gold; as water