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The Spirit of the Upanishads1584
encrusted with dust, shines in native lustre, when carefully washed; the self
having regained its Self shines alone in the eternal bliss of supreme fulfilment.
Śvetaśvataropanishad.
As the sword flashes out of its sheath before the eye in dream, transcending
the scheme of all causation; so is the knower all Self-effulgent, transcending
the five sheaths and standing above all causations.
Upadeśasahasri.
Thou mayest realize the distinction between this world and Spirit, to be as
like unto the distinction between void and Ether.
Yogavasishtha.
Those are the enlightened great souls of this world who happen to be firmly
fixed in eternal unborn Calmness. The world can not even dream of it.
Gaudapadacharya.
Sight of the Supreme breaks asunder the knot of egoism in the heart, dispels
all doubts, extinguishes all Karma.
Mundakopanishad.
The blindest sensualist finds in his mother the irremovable bar to the excess
of his indulgence; the man of the sharpest intellect is overcome by the
ultimate resort of all thought and all bliss—The One.
Vivekachudamani.
Therefore, the knower of The One finishing all learning, should wish to be
strong in the Self, and finishing even this strength as well as that learning, he
should try to become the silent one. Finishing learning, and strength, and
silence, he becomes the true Brahman, the real knower of Brahman. What,