UPANISHAD VAHINI - Sathya Sai Speaks

UPANISHAD VAHINI45As the sweetness of a thousand flowers is collectedinto honey, this Jagath is a concatenation of the elements.Dharma, Sathya and such abstract principles, men andsuch concrete living beings, the Virat-Purusha and suchconceptions—all these again are the effects of the sameBrahmathathwa, that is, an immortal changeless Thathwa(principle). The realisation that the Thathwa inheres inevery individual is Brahma Jnana.Janaka, the King of Videha, celebrated a Sacrificegiving away vast wealth in gifts. Many Brahmins attendedthis Yaga from the Kuru-Panchala territory. The King hada thousand cows decorated with anklets, necklaces andhornlets of gold. He announced that they would bedonated to whomever taught him the Brahmam. But suchBrahmins, though great scholars in their own line, hesitatedto claim the cows, through fear of failure. But Yajnavalkyawas so confident that he asked his students to drive thecows to his Ashram! The other Brahmins got enraged athis audacity and started testing his scholarship andexperience.The first to come forward to challenge Yajnavalkyawas the family priest of Janaka. The answers that thesage gave to his questions clarify the method of attainingthe Atma encased in the pranas, through the conjoint yogasof Karma and Bhakthi. In the Yajna, the Rithwik’s voiceis Agni, the Kala is Vayu, the Mind of the performer is