SOULS' BREAKFAST - Day Thirty-three

Lovers… good morning

Part of the oldest scriptures of India are the Upanishads translated literally as ”Sitting near devotedly”  sitting near your teacher, near in heart, near his big open heart . It also translates to “Secret teaching”.

How many of them existed in the past is unknown. 108 have been preserved. It is unknown with accuracy  when they were written nor who wrote them … It is all lost “in the dark background and abysm of time” but being exposed to them one realize the hand of a higher mind in the writing. 

I want to share just a small taste with you - maybe it will inspire you to go for a full dish. 

From the Upanishads

Translated from Sanskrit by  Swami Prabhavananda & Fredrick Manchester

“OM

With our ears may we hear what is good.

With our eyes may we behold thy righteousness.

Tranquil in body, may we who worship thee find rest.

OM…Peace – Peace – Peace” 

Mundaka 

From  KATA

“The secret of immortality is to be found in the purification of the heart, in meditation, in realization of the identity of the self within and Brahman without. For immortality is union with God”

“King of death:

The good is one thing, the pleasant is another. These two, differing in their ends, both prompt to action. Blessed are they that choose the good; they that choose the pleasant miss the goal …

What is within us is also without. What is without is also within. He who sees difference between what is within and what is without goes evermore from death to death …

When all the senses are stilled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not – then, say the wise, is reached the highest state”

From ISHA

“LIFE in the world and life in spirit are not incompatible. Work or action, is not contrary to knowledge of God, but indeed, if performed without attachment, is a means to it. 

On the other hand, renunciation is renunciation of the ego, of selfishness – not of life.

The end, both of work and of renunciation, is to know the self within and Brahman without, and to realize their identity. The Self is Brahman and Brahman is all. “

From MUNDAKA

“The sage must distinguish between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is of things, acts and relations. But wisdom is of Brahman alone; and beyond all things, acts and relations, he abides forever. To become one with him is the only wisdom”

Breakfast is so short… so much food is left

OM…Peace – Peace – Peace

Ran