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!

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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!

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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

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unsafe rafts

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...rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing

the sea of samsara, of birth and death.

Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross

the sea of samsara on these poor rafts.

Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise 

in their own esteem, these deluded ones

proud of their learning go round and round

like the blind led by the blind.

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Living in darkness, immature, unaware

of any higher good or goal, they fall

again and again into the sea.

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The eye cannot see it; mind cannot grasp it.

The deathless Self has neither caste nor race,

neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet.

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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and is withdrawn, as plants sprout from the earth.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.

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The deathless Self meditated upon 

Himself and projected the universe

As evolutionary energy.

From this energy developed life, mind,

the elements, and the world of karma,

which is enchained by cause and effect.

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The lord of Love is the one Self of all.

He is detached work, spiritual wisdom,

and immortality.  Realize the Self

hidden in the heart, and cut asunder

the knot of ignorance here and now.

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~ the Mundaka Upanishad

translated by Eknath Easwaran

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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.

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~ Mundaka Upanishad

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