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The Spirit of the Upanishads1542
As consciousness bears witness to itself, or as separateness bears out
separateness, so is illusion sufficient, of itself, to bear out itself and everything
in contains. This indeed is Illusion, capable of bringing about things and
events beyond conception;—it deludes all in the whirl of its illusive action.
Svarajyasiddhi.
The Self-Existent inflicted a curse on the senses in endowing them with a
tendency to objectivize; it is hence that they tend to objects without, and
not to the subject within. Some rare Sages desirous of immortality see the
Self, turning there eyes within. Children find pleasure in the objective, and
become bound in the expansive net of death; the wise knowing immortality
as the only thing stable, care not to desire anything of the impermanent.
Kathopanishad.
Self is the rider on the chariot of this body guided by the intellect as
charioteer, drawn by the senses as powerful horses, controlled by way of
the mind serving for the reins. Thus runs the vehicle over the course of
experience. The Self thus conditioned by the senses and the mind is called
the Enjoyer by those who know. He who is forsaken by the charioteer
(intelligent discrimination), and has no idea of guiding the reins—his mind—
in the proper manner, has no control over the senses, and is like a driver of
restive horses. He who has the intellect for his driver and the mind for proper
reins, is able to reach the other end of the course, the highest essence of the
All-Pervading. That ever concealed in all, is never manifest, but is grasped
by the sharp intellect of those who are trained to minute observation.
Kathopanishad.
Though having only three Gunas, or Qualities, Thou art the cause of all the
worlds; even the gods fail, through want of insight, to measure the depth
of Thy immeasurable power. Thou art the sustainer of all, the whole of this
universe is only a particle of Thyself; thou indeed art the undifferentiated