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Who sends the mind to wander afar? Who first drives life to start on its journey?Who impels us to utter these words? Who is the Spirit behind the eye and theear?

It is the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye, and the Word of words, the mind ofmind, and the life of life. Those who follow wisdom pass beyond and, on leavingthis world, become immortal.

There the eye goes not, nor words, nor mind. We know not, we cannotunderstand, how he can be eplained! "e is above the known and he is abovethe unknown. Thus have we heard from the ancient sages who eplained thistruth to us.

#atha $panishad %art I

"e cannot be taught by one who has not reached him& and he cannot be reachedby much thinking. The way to him is through a Teacher who has seen him! "e ishigher than the highest thoughts, in truth above all thought.

I will tell you the Word that all the '()*S glorify, all self+sacrifice epresses, allsacred studies and holy life seek. That Word is -.

oncealed in the heart of all beings is the *tman, the Spirit, the Self& smaller thanthe smallest atom, greater than the vast spaces. The man who surrenders hishuman will leaves sorrow behind, and beholds the glory of the *tman by thegrace of the reator.

"e is beyond thought and invisible, beyond family and colour. "e has neithereyes nor ears& he has neither hands nor feet. "e is everlasting and omnipresent,infinite in the great and infinite in the small. "e is the (ternal whom the sagessee as the source of all creation.

Svetasvatara $panishad

The Spirit supreme is immeasurable, inapprehensible, beyond conception, never+born, beyond reasoning, beyond thought. "is vastness is the vastness of space.

There are two ways of contemplation of /rahman! in sound and in silence. /ysound we go to silence. The sound of /rahman is -. With - we go to the(nd! the silence of /rahman. The end is immortality, union and peace.

(ven as a spider reaches the liberty of space by means of its own thread, theman of contemplation by means of - reaches freedom.

Taittiriya $panishad01th or 2th century /(3

It was written in the $panishads that there are two kinds of knowledge. ne kindwas called lower knowledge, which was described as knowledge about the

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eistence of 4od, knowledge of rituals and the knowledge that one ac5uiresthrough one6s senses about the material world. This lower knowledge wasdescribed as standing in the way of the other kind of knowledge! higherknowledge. This higher knowledge was described as impossible to eplain, liketrying to eplain warmth to someone who knows only cold. "igher knowledgewas described as a personal eperience that touched one6s soul. It was claimedthat written instructions might help guide one toward ac5uiring this knowledge butthat in this ac5uisition emotions had to dominate.

This view of knowledge did not acknowledge a limited ability to know so much asit did a limited ability to teach. Some contributors to the $panishads wrote that allthey could do was stimulate thinking in others that would lead these others toac5uire wisdom on their own. They described this search as an adventure onbehalf of the human spirit. ne contributor to the $panishads wrote!

Into blind darkness enter they who worship ignorance&Into darkness greater than that enter they who delight in knowledge.

What is the reality of things just as it is? It is the absence of essence.$nskilledpersons whose eye of intelligence is obscured by the darkness of delusionconceive of an essence of things and then generate attachment and hostility withregard to them.

7 /uddhap8lita+mula+madhyamaka+vrtti %19:9,;ement, think of yourself in respect to the "imalayas. r the %acificcean. r the universe.

We are nothing. We are insignificant. We are a single speck of dust in thecontinuum of time.

ind yourself rather than follow someone else6s path.

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