Swetaswatara Upanishad : attached to the Krishna Yajur-Veda.
... Know Purusha and Prakriti to be both eternal without beginning. Gita. (XIII. 20.) One must know Maya as Prakriti and the Master of Maya as the great Lord of all. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (IV. 10.) It is the might of the Godhead in the world that turns the wheel of Brahman. Him one must know, the supreme Lord of all lords, the supreme Godhead above all godheads... knowledge and her force. One Godhead, occult in all beings, the inner Self of all beings, the all-pervading, absolute without qualities, the overseer of all actions, the witness, the knower. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (VI. 1, 7, 8, 11.) There is then a supreme Reality eternal, absolute and infinite. Because it is absolute and infinite, it is in its essence indeterminable. It is indefinable and ...
... woman, boy and girl; old and worn thou walkest bent over a staff;... thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet-eyed.... Swetaswatara Upanishad. (IV. 3, 4.) This whole world is filled with beings who are His members. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (IV. 10.) An involution of the Divine Existence, the spiritual Reality, in the apparent inconscience of Matter is the st ...
... another; one should know his Maya as Nature and the Master of Maya as the great Lord of all. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (IV. 9, 10.) The Purusha is all this that is, what has been and what is yet to be; he is the master of Immortality and he is whatever grows by food. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (III. 15.) All is the Divine Being. Gita. (VII. 19.) But so far ...
... itself. For this country so teeming with gods is also, at the same time, the country of a monolithic faith in Oneness: "One, He presides over all wombs and natures; Himself the womb of all." ( Swetaswatara Upanishad V.5) But not everyone can at once merge with the Absolute; there are many degrees in the Ascent, and one who is ready to understand a little Lalita's childlike face and to bring her his incense... truth and the falsehood.... He became all this whatsoever that is." ( Taittiriya Upanishad II.6) "This whole world is filled with beings who are Page 140 His members," says the Swetaswatara Upanishad (IV.10). All to the eye that sees is One, to a divine experience all is one block of the Divine. 134 We may think that this is an altogether mystical vision of the universe, with very... they neglected what for them was the most exterior aspect of the manifestation." × 360 Swetaswatara Upanishad IV.3.4 × 361 On Yoga II, Tome 2, 340 ...
... the inner Self of all, presiding over all action, witness, conscious knower and absolute... the One in control over the many who are passive to Nature, fashions one seed in many ways. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (VI. 11, 12.) The Godhead moves in this Field modifying each web of things separately in many ways.... One, he presides over all wombs and natures; himself the womb of all, he... he is that which brings to ripeness the nature of the being and he gives to all who have to be matured their result of development and appoints all qualities to their workings. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (V. 3-5.) He fashions one form of things in many ways. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 12.) Who has perceived this truth occult, that the Child gives being to the Mothers by ...
... Knowledge; another than they is He who rules over both the Knowledge and the Ignorance. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (V. 1.) Two Unborn, the Knower and one who knows not, the Lord and one who has not mastery: one Unborn and in her are the object of enjoyment and the enjoyer. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (I. 9.) Two are joined together, powers of Truth, powers of Maya,—they have ...
... source & material of all objects & existences; for this Shakti, Prakriti or Nature produces all its works, objects & happenings only in the Ishwara's self-extended conscious existence. So, the Swetaswatara Upanishad defines Prakriti as Devátmashaktim swagunair nigúdhám, Self-Power of the Divinity concealed by its own modes of working. The Self in Vedanta is not only Swayambhu, self-existent; it is Swarat ...
... growth of the self. According to his actions the embodied being assumes forms successively in many places; many forms gross and subtle he assumes by force of his own qualities of nature. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (V. 11, 12.) Birth is the first spiritual mystery of the physical universe, death is the second which gives its double point of perplexity to the mystery of birth; for life, which ...
... Chapter XXIII The Double Soul in Man The Purusha, the inner Self, no larger than the size of a man's thumb. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 12, 13; II. 3. 17.) Swetaswatara Upanishad. (III. 13.) He who knows this Self who is the eater of the honey of existence and the lord of what is and shall be, has thenceforward no shrinking. Katha Upanishad. (II. ...
... Divine Chapter VIII Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance Some speak of the self-nature of things, others say that it is Time. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (VI. 1.) Two are the forms of Brahman, Time and the Timeless. Maitri Upanishad. (VI. 15.) Night was born and from Night the flowing ocean of being and on the ...
... than the hundredth part of the tip of a hair, the soul of the living being is capable of infinity. Male is he not nor female nor neuter, but is joined to whatever body he takes as his own. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (V. 7-10.) Mortals, they achieved immortality. Rig Veda. (I. 110. 4.) Our first conclusion on the subject of reincarnation has been that the rebirth of the soul ...
... man withers like the fruits of the field and like the fruits of the field he is bom again!" 3 To arrest this great cycle of repeated births and deaths, this Brahmacakra of the Swetaswatara Upanishad, has been the traditional goal of most of Indian spiritual Sadhanas. And in order to realise this goal, one has to transform the act of the body's death into a vaivasvaia m ṛ tyu ('the ...
... × 19 Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.12. × 20 Swetaswatara Upanishad, IV.3.4. × 21 Chhandogya Upanishad, VI.8.7. ...
... the waters. भेष is by philology identical with the Latin ficus or figtree, aswattha. The aswattha is the Yogic emblem of the manifested world, as in the Gita, the tree of the two birds in the Swetaswatara Upanishad, the single tree in the blue expanse of the Song of Liberation. The jala is the apah or waters from which the world rises. The rishi then prays that the वातीकारः, mass of winds of which Rudra ...
... × kiṁ prabhāṣeta kim āsīta vrajeta kim. × Swetaswatara Upanishad. ...
... × Rig Veda , I. 4. 5. × Swetaswatara Upanishad , VI. 12. × A name of Vishnu, who, as the God in man, lives constantly associated in a dual ...
... Life Divine Chapter X Conscious Force They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (I. 3.) This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 8.) All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy ...
... Indicative of the reemergence of the higher vijnana in a greater brilliance (?) Jonakis, stars and dark living spots very frequent. (N.B the firefly, the star, the wind are given in Swet. Up [Swetaswatara Upanishad]—along with others, moon, sun, fire etc, as signs of Yogasiddhi.) 19 March 1914 Dullness of vijnana continues. Remarkable instance of Aishwarya, Caillaux-Calmeth, & resignation of Caillaux ...
... absorbed and deluded and has sorrow because it is not the Lord, but when it sees and is in union with that other self and greatness of it which is the Lord, then sorrow passes away from it. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (IV. 7.) If all is in truth Sachchidananda, death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations, positive in practical effect, negative in essence, of a distorting co ...
... this cycle of Brahman, huge, a totality of lives, a totality of states, thinking itself different from the Impeller of the journey. Accepted by Him, it attains its goal of Immortality. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (I. 6.) The progressive revelation of a great, a transcendent, a luminous Reality with the multitudinous relativities of this world that we see and those other worlds that we do ...
... drawn from imperfect data. × Intelligent Consciousness that went forth in the beginning. Swetaswatara Upanishad. ...
... all other creatures, even to the gods, who have to take on an earthly body if they want to evolve further. The Katha Upanishad says that the soul is ‘no larger than a man’s thumb’; the Swetaswatara Upanishad says it is ‘smaller than the hundredth part of the tip of a hair.’ Actually, these figurative descriptions mean that the soul has no dimensions in our tridimensional world. It belongs to a ...
... exists — because all is Brahman. ‘Thou art man and woman, boy and girl; old and worn out, thou walkest bent over a staff; thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet-eyed …’ sings the Swetaswatara Upanishad (IY 3,4). ‘If it is true that only the Self exists, then it must also be true that everything is the Self.’ (Sri Aurobindo). As simple as that, but fundamental. The Mother said it still more ...
... Appendix II Conscious Force They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad.* This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material ...
... तेन मां पाहि नित्यम् ॥८॥ rudra yatte dakṣiṇaṁ mukham, tena māṁ pāhi nityam.8 O Rudra, O thou Terrible, Thou hast that other kind and smiling face, with that sweet smile protect me. Swetaswatara Upanishad 4.21 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads: Shwetashwatara Upanishad सर्वस्तरतु दुर्गाणि सर्वो भद्राणि पश्यतु । सर्वः सद्बुद्धिमाप्नोतु सर्वः सर्वत्र ...
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