Showing posts with label Mundaka Upanishad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mundaka Upanishad. Show all posts

Monday, March 25, 2024

known through love but not through thought







Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart.
Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes
Lives in the Self.  He is the source of love
And may be known through love but not through thought.
He is the goal of life.  Attain this goal!

...
In his robe are woven heaven and earth,
Mind and body.  Realize him as the One
Behind the many and stop all vain talk.
He is the bridge from death to deathless life.

Where all the nerves meet like spokes in a wheel,
There he dwells, the One behind the many.
Meditate upon him in the mantram.
May he guide us from death to deathless life!

...
The Lord of Love is before and behind.
He extends to the right and to the left.
He extends above; he extends below.
There is no one here but the Lord of Love.
He alone is; in truth, he alone is.



~ excerpt from The Mundaka Upanishad
translated by Eknath Easwaran
art by Jeff Metal


Sunday, April 28, 2019

as the web issues out of the spider




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As the web issues out of the spider
And is withdrawn, as plants sprout
from the earth,
As hair grows from the body, even so,
The sages say, this universe springs from
The deathless Self, the source of life.



~ Mundaka Upanishad




Tuesday, April 16, 2019

bright but hidden





Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart.
Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes
Lives in the Self.  He is the source of love
And may be known through love but not through
thought.
He is the goal of life.  Attain this goal!

The shining Self dwells hidden in the heart.
Everything in the cosmos, great and small,
Lives in the Self.  He is the source of life,
Truth beyond the transience of this world.
He is the goal of life.  Attain this goal!



~ The Mundaka Upanishad
Modes of knowing
translation by Eknath Easwaran