Higher enlightenment is impossible, and even if it was possible, worthless,
unless there has been preparation and purification by means of restraint of the senses.
Fill the span of life given to you, says the Upanishad, with work and worship as is done
by people without the higher knowledge but carry on the work in the spirit of detachment
and under stand the forms in the sense that you have learnt from the higher knowledge.
Hereby you shall pass through Death to
Immortality. The Santi sloka of this Upanishad tersely sets out the relation of the
Individual Soul to the Supreme Spirit. The Self that functions within us is of divine
origin. It is of the same substance as the Supreme Spirit. |
