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The Spirit of the Upanishads1600
This kind of apparent “latent desire” in those who have found liberation
while living is no desire at all; it is that universal sense of being which is
known as pure being.
Yogavasishtha.
Having known It thus, fill thyself with the memory of pure Unity; having
realized the Unit, walk the world like a mass of so much dead matter. No
praise, no salute, no offerings even to the dead, no fixed or unfixed abode,—
the harmonized soul should ever live in Faith and Trust.
Gaudapadacharya.
The fifteen rays return into their source; the divine forces governing the
senses find back the universal fountain of their rise; the reflection in the
inner sense—the embodied soul—together with every action whatever, all
become one in the supreme unchangeable Essence. As rivers flowing into
the ocean lose their individual name and form, nay thus lose even themselves,
so does the knower, freed from all name and all form, find the highest Being,
all light. He who thus knows the highest Self, verily becomes Self; none that
is born in his family has his eye closed to Self. He soars above sin and sorrow;
freed from the ties of the heart, he becomes immortal.
Mundakopanishad.
Giving up the body in some holy place or in the house of the lowly, conscious
or unconscious, he finds Liberation, all cause of sorrow being entirely
destroyed, and liberation being found in the very moment of the rise of
Spiritual Consciousness.
Vartika.
Water is water, whether it stands all placid or surges up in high billows; it
makes no difference to the Ocean. Embodied or disembodied, there is
no difference in the liberation of the silent knower. What difference can