06-15-2005, 05:51 PM
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I am still laughing after reading this admonition against dogmatism from our dear friend Carl. This is the same Carl who claimed someone (I simply forget who - can you remind me Carl?) wetting his or her pants for the crime of posting some Svetashvatara Upanishad shlokas.
I can't resist posting some more verses ( even at the risk of wetting my pants):
"Having realised that (Atman) which is soundless, touchless, FORMLESS, imperishable, and also withut taste and smell, eternal, without beginning and end, even beyond the Mahat, immutable, - one is released from the jaws of death." (Katha Up 1.3.15)
"As pure water poured into pure water becomes the SAME, so O Gautama, becomes the self of the sage who knows (the UNITY of the Atman). ( Katha 2.1.15)
"This Self is indeed the MIGHTY LORD. He is the imperishable light that controls everything. He guides the intellect of all beings so as to enable them to gain that EXTREMELY PURE STATE (of Mukti)." (SVETASVATARA 3.12)
"It is He who resides in the body, the city of nine gates. He is the soul that sports in the outside world. He is the master of the whole world, animate and the inanimate." (Svetasvatara 3.18)
"For truly, EVERYTHING is Brahman, and this Self within (Atman) is Brahman." (Mandukya 2)
I am still laughing after reading this admonition against dogmatism from our dear friend Carl. This is the same Carl who claimed someone (I simply forget who - can you remind me Carl?) wetting his or her pants for the crime of posting some Svetashvatara Upanishad shlokas.
I can't resist posting some more verses ( even at the risk of wetting my pants):
"Having realised that (Atman) which is soundless, touchless, FORMLESS, imperishable, and also withut taste and smell, eternal, without beginning and end, even beyond the Mahat, immutable, - one is released from the jaws of death." (Katha Up 1.3.15)
"As pure water poured into pure water becomes the SAME, so O Gautama, becomes the self of the sage who knows (the UNITY of the Atman). ( Katha 2.1.15)
"This Self is indeed the MIGHTY LORD. He is the imperishable light that controls everything. He guides the intellect of all beings so as to enable them to gain that EXTREMELY PURE STATE (of Mukti)." (SVETASVATARA 3.12)
"It is He who resides in the body, the city of nine gates. He is the soul that sports in the outside world. He is the master of the whole world, animate and the inanimate." (Svetasvatara 3.18)
"For truly, EVERYTHING is Brahman, and this Self within (Atman) is Brahman." (Mandukya 2)