so we have heard

  

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We are enshrined in each other.
We are the supreme reality.
Rejoice in that.
We are what we have coveted.

Thus working we may live a hundred years.
Thus we may work in real freedom.
When the Self in denied, the dream continues
and the true love is hidden.

Ever still, the Self is one.
Swifter than thought, swifter than the senses.
Though motionless, the Self outruns pursuit.
There is only the Self.

Seeming to move, we are ever still.
Seeming far away, we are always here,
We are within, transcending all.

When we see all creatures as the Self
And the Self as all creatures
We know no fear.
We know no grief.
How can the multiplicity of the Self be hidden from its Self?

We are everywhere. Bright is the Self,
Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise,
Immanent and transcendent,
The self holds the cosmos together.

Dreaming in the dark night, the world without alone is real;
In night darker still, the world within
Alone is real. The first leads to a life
Of action, the second to a life of meditation.
But those who combine action with meditation
Cross the sea of death through action
And enter into the timeless Self
Through the practice of meditation.

So have we heard.

In dark night the Self is perceived as other,
Darker still when the Self is perceived as immanent only.
The Self is both immanent and transcendent,
Crossing the sea of death
With the immanent and entering into
The light with the transcendent.

So we have heard.

The face of truth is hidden. O sun,
I, who adore the truth, see
The glory of truth. O nourishing sun,
Solitary traveller, creator,
Blessed Self of all that is created,
I am that.

OM shanti shanti shanti


The Katha Upanishad
lessons from Eknath Easwaren version

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All this is full. All that is full.

From fullness, fullness comes.

When fullness is taken from fullness,

Fullness remains.

OM shanti shanti shanti

 

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