True Spiritual Self

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

 

The following extracts are from the Katha Upanishad:'The good is one thing; the pleasurable, another. Bothof these, serving different needs, bind a man. It goes well with him who, of the two, takes the good; but he who chooses the pleasurable misses the end. Both the good and the

pleasurable present themselves to a man. The calm soul examines them well and discerns. He prefers the good to the pleasurable; but the ignorant chooses the pleasurable out of desire.''Many there are who do not even hear of the True Self; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend.Wonderful is the

expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the realiser of the True Self taught by an able preceptor. The True Self, when taught by an inferior person, is not easily comprehended,

because It is diversely regarded by disputants. However, whenIt is taught by him who has become one with the True Self, there can remain no more doubt about It. The True Self is subtler than the subtlest and not to be realised through argument.''The True Self is smaller than the small, greater than the great, is hidden in the hearts of all living creatures. A man who is free from desires beholds the greatness of the True Self through calming the senses and the mind and becomes free from grief.''Beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind is the

intellect, higher than the intellect is the True Self, higher than the True Self is the Supreme Self, higher than the Supreme Self is the Unmanifest. Beyond the Unmanifest is the Supreme Being, all-pervading and imperceptible. Having realised Him, the embodied Self becomes liberated from death and re-birth. His form is not an object of vision; no one beholds Him with the eye. One can know Him when He is revealed by the intellect free from doubt and by constant meditation.Those who know this become liberated from birth,suffering, degeneration, death and re-birth.'

 

Sivaya Namah

 

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