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The Spirit of the Upanishads1592
The army engaged in close battle, in a picture, fights all unmoved; the
wise, though deep in intercourse with the world, stands equally even in all
conditions.
Yogavasishtha.
The Vedas; the constant study of the Scriptures; close application to the
subtleties of philosophy;—what do these avail! What, indeed, is the use
of that whirl of ceremonial worship, which at best lodges the weary soul in
some hovel of the village called Heaven! Conscious harmony in the blissful
condition of Self, the great-pralaya-fire destroying the net of misery born
of the bondage of this world;—all, saving this, are but the toys of spiritual
pedantry.
Bhartrhari.
The Soul imagining itself into the act, takes on the result of that act; not
imagining itself into the act, it is ever free of the result.
Yogavasishtha.
Where could That be invoked which fills all space? where is the seat of That
which is the seat of all? Of the Pure, what can be the wash or the offering of
honour?—what the drink that purifies within?
Śankaracharya.
I have no distraction, and therefore no attraction; distraction or attraction
are all incidents of the mind under power of attraction.
Upadeśasahasri.
The idea which consciousness, at first, imagines, of itself, as its own form, that
it continues to be even to the present day. The same consciousness may, by