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Om Namo Narayanaya
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Isavasya

Upanishad It is beautiful Upanishad. Svadhyaya. This book will be very much

a wonderful

Upanishad, It is a meant for our daily

liked

by those

are endowed with strong highly blessed ones who conviction in the existence of the All-merciful Lord, whose minds are ever fixed on the lotus feet
of their Gurudev, who approach the holy Sastras with reverence and faith, and whose summum borum of life is the attainment of Infinite Bliss

and Immortality.
Those who have no devotion to the Lord, those who decry the miraculous grace of the guru, those
holy Scriptures will scarcely benefit by the study of this book. People with spiritual bent of mind, people who have firm conviction in the existence of the omnipresent*
ridicule

who

the

omnipotent and omniscient Lord will certainly profit by the study of this Spiritual Book.
does not live by bread alone nor by learning alone but he can live by the Spirit, Most of our

Man

educated brethren are spiritual bankrupts. A itudy of the Upanishads which are an inexhauitihjf
spiritual

trcature

will

make

them

spiritually

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enriched,
is

we should avoid spiritual bankruptcy, Acquisition and dissemination of spiritual knowthe dire need of the hour.
is

ledge

Tbis book
three

a maiden attempt of an aspirant who has been treading the spiritual path for the last
decades, brethren to go
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humbly appeal

to our
this

theist

through every page of

book,

Even if one reader increases his devotion to the Lord by the study of this great little book, I feel cay efforts are amply awarded.
the blessings of the Upanishadic Seers be upon every reader of this great authentic Upani-

May

fchad

With regards, lev* and om,

RADHAKRISHNAYYA,

Para Brahman pervades all that appears here, you should therefore really enjoy by renouncing, the sense of separateness. you have no reason to
covet others' property.
Life

not a misery, you should live for hundred Life years by doing action without attachment. is not a bondage if you look at it with proper light. The sage of right knowledge looks on all beings as
is

To him as all beings. he is not affected and everything by grief delusion or sorrow of any kind.
his

own

Self

and
his

his

self

is

own

self

The Satya Vastu

is

is

indescribable.

Para Brahman

reach of the mind and the senses, Brahman is beyond even the intellect. It is the Senses light of all else, nothing is a light to it. cannot perceive it, mind cannot think it. Intellect cannot understand it. Such a wonderful, mysterious thing is the Truth,

beyond the

Brahma Jnana is not a knowledge of something It is but becoming Absolute knowledge itself, the infinite subject if speech can be allowed to describe like that, Brahma Jnana is an experience and not a perception. It is absoluteness and is, therefore, beyond the conception of duality and The greatest blessedness is to pairs of opposites. know that, and he is an imfortunate Soul who dies without the knowledge of it.

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That
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Full.

This

is

Full,

The

proceeded from the Full, Taking the Full from the Full,
Full
is

What remains

the Full alone.

Om
1.
is

All this

peace peace !! peace !!! whatsoever moves in this universe !

Do
2.

indwelt by the Lord, That renounced, enjoy. not covet the wealth of any man.

Doing

verily works

in this world,

one should
is

hundred years. Thus, it unto you and not otherwise than this. wil! not touch that man.
live a 3.

wish to

proper

Karma

Sunless or

over with
self

go

godless are those worlds covered blind darkness. Those who kill their to these worlds after they leave their

bodies.
4.

Atman

is

uriagitated.

It is

one, swifter than

It It

the mind.

The Devas could not overtake.

which runs before them.

than those

who run

Sitting, goes faster after It. By It Matarisvan

all

supports the activity of

Jiving beings.

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It

(Atman) moves.
It
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does not move.

It
is

It

is

distant.

proximate.

within

all

this

and
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it is

also outside all this.

He who

beholds

all

creatures in the self

and

the self ia all

creatures, does not shrink from any

being or object thereafter.

7.

one

When unto him, the knower, all beings become with his own Atman, how will he be deluded,
grief
is

what
8.

there

when he beholds oneness

all

everywhere

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is

pervading, brilliant, bodiless, scatheless, muscleless, pure, sin-proofed He omniscient, transcendent, self-born. wise, their creators duly allotted to the various eternal
respective functions.
9.

He (Atman)

blind darkness.
fall into

Those who worship Avidya only fall into Those who worship Vidya only
even greater darkness.

thing, it is declared, is obtained from and another from Avidya. Thus have we Vidya heard from the wise who taught bodha to us.
10.
11.

One

He who knows

and Avidya
12.

overcomes

simultaneously both Vidya death by Avidya and

attains immortality

by Vidya

Those who worship Asambhuti fall into blind darkness. Those who worship Sambhuti fall into
even greater darkness.

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it is declared, is obtained from the of Sambbuti and another from the worship worship of Asambhuti. Thus have we heard

13.

One

thing,

from the wise who taught us this. 14 He who worships Asambhuti and Sambhuti simultaneously overcomes death by Sambhuti and attains immortality by Asambhuti.

The face of Truth is covered by a golden disc. Remove, O Sun, the covering, for the law
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of the Truth, that

16.

may

see It.

Sun, sole traveller of the heavens, Yama, Surya, son of prajapati, disperse your rays and

back your burning light, I see your splendid form. I am He, the purusha within you. 17. Let my vital breath melt into the all-pervadLet this be burnt Air. to body ing ashes, Om.
collect

mind, remember, remember, my actions mind, remember, remember, my actions,

18.

as

Agni, lead us on to Mukti by a good path, God, all the ways. Remove the you know, crooked evil from within us, We offer you our

best salutations.

The The

Full is all that. The Full Full was born of the Full, Taking the Fall from the Full,

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