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Death said: "The Self-existent pierced the openings (of the senses) so that they turn forward; therefore man looks fo…
Children follow after outward pleasures, and fall into the snare of wide-spread death. Wise men only, knowing the nat…
That by which we know form, taste, smell, sounds, and loving touches, by that also we know what exists besides. This …
The wise, when he knows that that by which he perceives all objects in sleep or in waking is the great omnipresent Se…
He who knows this living soul, which eats honey (perceives objects) as being the Self, always near, the Lord of the p…
He who (knows) him who was born first from the brooding heat (for he was born before the water), who, entering into t…
(He who knows) Aditi also, who is one with all deities, who arises with Prâna (breath or Hiranyagarbha), who, enterin…
There is Agni (fire), the all-seeing, hidden in the two fire-sticks, well-guarded like a child (in the womb) by the m…
And that whence the sun rises, and whither it goes to set, there all the Devas are contained, and no one goes beyond.…
What is here (visible in the world), the same is there (invisible in Brahman); and what is there, the same is here. H…
Even by the mind this (Brahman) is to be obtained, and then there is no difference whatsoever. He goes from death to …
The person (purusha), of the size of a thumb, stands in the middle of the Self (body ?), as lord of the past and the …
That person, of the size of a thumb, is like a light without smoke, lord of the past and the future, he is the same t…
As rain-water that has fallen on a mountain-ridge runs down the rocks on all sides, thus does he, who sees a differen…
As pure water poured into pure water remains the same, thus, O Gautama, is the Self of a thinker who knows."