Brahmopanishad Selections

Saunaka Mahashala questioned Pippalada: "In this beautiful body, the fit residence of divine beings, how are (the deities of) vak, etc., located? How do they function? To whom belongs this power? He to whom this power belongs, what is He?" (106)

Pippalada then imparted to him the most excellent god-wisdom, saying. "It is prana (that is,) Atma. It is Atma that exercises this power. It is the life of all Devas. It is their death and life." (106)

The spider throws out from a single thread out of his body a whole web, and draws it into himself by that same thread. (106)

A child obtains happiness without desiring for it (in play). (107)

The source of Devas and Vedas, clings to a man like the breasts in a woman. (107)

The Para-Brahman without light shines in the middle of Aditya, Vishnu, Ishvara, Purusha, prana, jiva, agni, the resplendent. One only Brahman shines. (107)

In the heart in Chaitanya it [Brahman] is. (108)

God awards the fruits of karma . . . there is nothing like him . . . He is the great wise one. (108-9)

They who practise truth and austerities see Him in the buddhi. (109)

The heart is the great abode of All. (109)

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Vajrasuchi-Upanishad Selections

There are four castes – the brahmin, the kshatriya, the vaishya, and the shudra. (110)

What is meant by the brahmin? Is it a jiva? Is it a body? Is it a class? Is it jnana? Is it karma? Or is it a doer of dharma? To all the questions the answer is No, not per se. (110-11)

Who then is brahmin? It is he who has directly realised Atma and is directly cognisant of his Atma that is without a second and is of the nature of truth, knowledge, bliss, and eternity. Atma is of nature of undivided bliss, cannot be reasoned about and is known only by direct cognition, and whose mind is untouched by pride, egoism, etc., only he is the brahmin. (111-12, abr.)

Meditate on Atma as Sachchidananda, and the non-dual Brahman. Yea. (112)

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