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The Spirit of the Upanishads1572
Time must elapse between sowing and harvest, nay even in the growth of
such wild grass as the holy Kusa and the like; reflection on the Self ripens into
self-realization by degrees, and in course of time.
Panchadasi.
Attach thyself not to Karma; but equally attach thyself not to stupid
inactivity and suspension of all Karma whatever;—be what your are, equal
in all conditions.
Yogavasishtha.
That patience which would empty the ocean drop by drop, at the tip of a
straw of the Kusa-grass, will, untiringly sustained, establish control over the
mind.
Gaudapadacharya.
The inner Self is the purusha as big as the man’s thumb ever present in the
heart;—him should he patiently separate from the body like its pulp from
the straw.
Kathopanishad.
The One, omnipotent, inner Self of all beings, manifests himself as the
manifold. None but those who see Him in themselves, find eternal happiness.
Eternal in the eternal; conscious in the conscious; ever one; he sends out all
the variety of ideas to all. None but those who see Him in themselves, find
eternal peace.
Kathopanishad.
The interval between the mind’s passing from one idea to another—the
period of calm between the two storms of Thought—may be described as
the native condition of Self.
Yogavasishtha.