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The Spirit of the Upanishads1590
The ladle helps to prepare a variety of viands, but it never knows the taste of
any one of them: he knows all the four Vedas, and Institutes of Duty without
end, but the poor thing knows not the essence of them all—Brahman.
Uttaragita.
Attachment to any one of the many fields which the mind visits for exercise,
is the surest sign of ignorance; greenness is certainly impossible in the tree
that conceals a consuming fire in its hollow.
Naishkarmyasiddhi.
The swimmer, having safely carried many to the other side of the stream, is
drawn into the whirlpool, and is carried beyond all help. Those, on the other
side, who feel grateful for his help, pity him, others pass on in indifference.
The Wise Man caught into the whirlpool of words and technicalities, has the
pity of those who having reached the other side of all words and all forms
feel yet grateful for his help.
Atmapurana.
That knower of Self who yet deals in “give and get returns” hath not graduated
himself for Liberation.
Upadeśasakasri.
The wise grieve not, having seen the unbodied Self pervading all mortal
forms, ever great, all-embracing.
Kathopanishad.
As is the being of things; the void-ness of void; or the being with forms of
forms; so is this Universe. That whereof comes the whole universe at the
end of sleep, and that wherein it dissolves itself at the moment of rest, is this
chidakasa.
Yogavasishtha.