Behold the universe in the glory of God, and all that lives and moves on Earth. Leaving the transient, find joy in the Eternal. Set not your heart on another’s possession. §
Śukla Yajur Veda, Īśa Upanishad 1. UPM, P.49§
According as one acts, so does he become. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.§
Śukla Yajur Veda, Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upanishad 4.4.5. UPH, P. 140§
Iḍā is the Gaṅgā of the lower world, piṅgalā the river Yamunā, and between iḍā and piṅgalā is sushumṇā, the subtle river Sarasvatī. It is said that to bathe in the confluence of the three rivers leads to the Great Result. §
Śukla Yajur Veda, Tṛishikhi Brāhmaṇa 316-317, YM, P.126§
When the body is in silent steadiness, breathe rhythmically through the nostrils with peaceful ebbing and flowing of breath. The chariot of the mind is drawn by wild horses, and those wild horses have to be tamed. Find a quiet retreat for the practice of yoga, sheltered from the wind, level and clean, free from rubbish, smoldering fires and ugliness, and where the sound of waters and the beauty of the place help thought and contemplation. §
Kṛishṇa Yajur Veda, Śvetāśvatara Upanishad 2.9-10. UPM, P. 88 §
O self-luminous Divine, remove the veil of ignorance from before me, that I may behold your light. Reveal to me the spirit of the scriptures. May the truth of the scriptures be ever present to me. May I seek day and night to realize what I learn from the sages.§
Ṛig Veda, Aitareya Upanishad, Invocation. UPH, P. 95§
The desire for true knowledge arises in a person who is free from attachment and possessed of discriminative faculty. With a view to uplift that conscious soul from the ocean of mundane life, Lord Śiva unites him (with a sense of longing). The person thus united is directed to an āchārya by God.§
Mātaṅga Parameśvara Āgama 50-51§
From unreality lead me to reality. From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality.§
Śukla Yajur Veda, Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upanishad, 1.3.28. VE, P. 599§
As one not knowing that a golden treasure lies buried beneath his feet may walk over it again and again yet never find it—so all beings live every moment in the city of Brahman yet never find Him, because of the veil of illusion by which He is concealed.§
Sāma Veda, Çhāndogya Upanishad 8.3.2. UPP, P. 121§
This ātman is not attained by instruction or by intelligence or by learning. By him whom he chooses is the ātman attained. To him the ātman reveals his own being. The one who has not turned away from wickedness, who has no peace, who is not concentrated, whose mind is restless—he cannot realize the ātman, who is known by wisdom.§
Kṛishṇa Yajur Veda, Kaṭha Upanishad 1.2.24-25. VE, P. 710§
Whatever world the man of purified mind desires, whatever desires he wishes to fulfill, all these he attains. Therefore, let whoever is desirous of prosperity worship the man of Self Realization.§
Atharva Veda, Muṇḍaka Upanishad 3.1.10, EH P. 178§
The fixing of thought with one-pointed attention solely on the object attained through hearing and reflection is meditation. With thought absorbed only in the object meditated upon, giving up the distinction of the meditator and the act of meditation, resembling a lamp in a windless spot, one attains the highest enlightenment. In that state, when the functionings directed towards the cognition of the self are roused (the intuitions of the self) are not cognized but only inferred from memory. Through this the numberless previous karmas accumulated during this beginningless cycle of births and deaths attain their dissolution. Thence, through the power of practice, a stream of nectar showers always from a thousand directions. Therefore, the adepts in yoga call this highest enlightenment the cloud of virtue. When the nets of dispositions (good and bad) are dissolved without any residue, when the accumulated deeds, virtuous and vicious, are completely destroyed to the very roots, the past and the future alike, owing to the removal of all impediments, bring about the direct and immediate perception (of Brahman) as of the amalaka fruit on the palm of the hand. Then (the knower of Brahman) becomes liberated while in life.§
Paingala Upanishad 3.3. UPR, P. 916 §