That is Fullness, this is Fullness; from Fullness comes Fullness. When Fullness is taken from Fullness, Fullness remains. § YAJUR VEDA, BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD 5.1§ |
New Life
In this painting we see the marvelous reemergence of life out of the ordeal of death even beyond the setting sun. Indeed, reality is capable of self-renewal into an awareness of the oneness of all beings and things.§
Eye cannot see him, nor words reveal him; by the senses, austerity, or works he is not known. When the mind is cleansed by the grace of wisdom, he is seen by contemplation—the One without parts.§
MUNDAKA UPANISHAD 3.1.8§
In the beginning this was Brahman, One and infinite, infinite in the East, infinite in the South, infinite in the West, infinite in the North, infinite above and below, infinite in every direction. For him there are, of course, no directions such as the East and so on, no across, no above, and no below. §
Inconceivable is this supreme atman, immeasurable, unborn, inscrutable, unthinkable, he whose Self is space. He alone remains awake when the universe is dissolved, and out of this space he awakens [again] the world consisting of thought. By him alone is all this thought [into being] and in him it dissolves again. His shining form is that which burns in the sun; it is the multiform light that shines in the smokeless fire and it is that which digests the food in the body. For thus it has been said:§
He who dwells in the fire, he who dwells in the heart, he who dwells in the sun, he is One. The man who knows this, he verily attains the Oneness of the One.§
YAJUR VEDA, MAITRI UPANISHAD 6.17§
For me there is no earth, no water, and no fire. For me there is neither wind nor ether. The one who has discovered the supreme atman dwelling in the heart, without parts, without a second, the universal witness, neither being nor nonbeing, attains the pure form of the supreme atman.§
ATHARVA VEDA, KAIVALYA UPANISHAD 23§