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Post by Alena on Dec 27, 2006 11:56:52 GMT -5
Who is this Self on whom we meditate? Is it the Self by which we see, hear, smell, and taste, Through which we speak in words? Is Self the mind By which we perceive, direct, understand, Know, remember, think, will, desire, and love? These are but servants of the Self, who is Pure consciousness. This Self is all in all. He is all the gods, the five elements, Earth, air, fire, water, and space; all creatures, Great or small, born of eggs, of wombs, of heat, Of shoots; horses, cows, elephants, men, and women; All beings that walk, all beings that fly, And all that neither walk nor fly. Prajna Is pure consciousness, guiding all. The world Rests on prajna, and prajna is Brahman. -Aitareya Upanishad Excerpted from The Upanishads, translated by Eknath Easwaran, copyright 1987. Reprinted with permission from Nilgiri Press, www.nilgiri.org. To order the book, please call 1-800-475-2369.
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