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"There are the two, drinking their reward in the world of their own works, entered into the cave (of the heart), dwel…
May we be able to master that Nâkiketa rite which is a bridge for sacrificers; also that which is the highest, imperi…
Know the Self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect (buddhi) the charioteer, and th…
The senses they call the horses, the objects of the senses their roads. When he (the Highest Self) is in union with t…
He who has no understanding and whose mind (the reins) is never firmly held, his senses (horses) are unmanageable, li…
But he who has understanding and whose mind is always firmly held, his senses are under control, like good horses of …
He who has no understanding, who is unmindful and always impure, never reaches that place, but enters into the round …
But he who has understanding, who is mindful and always pure, reaches indeed that place; from whence he is not born a…
But he who has understanding for his charioteer, and who holds the reins of the mind, he reaches the end of his journ…
Beyond the senses there are the objects, beyond the objects there is the mind, beyond the mind there is the intellect…
Beyond the Great there is the Undeveloped, beyond the Undeveloped there is the Person (purusha). Beyond the Person th…
That Self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and su…
A wise man should keep down speech and mind; he should keep them within the Self which is knowledge; he should keep k…
Rise, awake! having obtained your boons, understand them! The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus t…
He who has perceived that which is without sound, without touch, without form, without decay, without taste, eternal,…
A wise man who has repeated or heard the ancient story of Nakiketas told by Death, is magnified in the world of Brahman.
And he who repeats this greatest mystery in an assembly of Brâhmans, or full of devotion at the time of the Srâddha s…