ISA UPANISHAD EXPLAINED

THAT IS THE WHOLE.

That is the whole. ”That” means the ultimate, the absolute, the hidden aspect of reality, the invisible, the unmanifest. You can call it God truth, nirvana.

THIS IS THE WHOLE TOO.

And by ”this” is meant the phenomenal world, the manifest world, the world that  surrounds you. ”That” means your center, ”this” means your circumference. And both are whole, in fact both are one whole.

FROM WHOLENESS EMERGES WHOLENESS.

From ”that” emerges ”this”, and out of wholeness only wholeness can be born. You cannot dissect wholeness, you cannot divide wholeness. Out of wholeness only  wholeness is born, so both are whole.

WHOLENESS COMING FROM WHOLENESS,

WHOLENESS STILL REMAINS.

Although the wholeness comes from the whole it does not mean that the whole, the original whole, starts losing something. It loses nothing; it STILL remains the whole. This is a tremendously important statement. It will be good to try to understand it through YOUR experience.

You love somebody; that does not mean that because you have given; on the contrary, it may be even more. It is not ordinary economics. In the ordinary economics if you give something, of course you will have less. But The inner world is totally different.

AT THE HEART ALL THIS PHENOMENAL WORLD,

WITHIN ALL ITS CHANGING FORMS,

DWELLS THE UNCHANGING LORD.

Everywhere God is present; all that is needed is the eyes to see. Then you will see him in the rocks and in the stars and in the birds and in the animals and in the people around you. But the first experience has to happen within you; only then you will be able to see him everywhere else.

SO, GO BEYOND THE CHANGING,

AND, ENJOYING THE INNER,

The unchanging is the God and the changing is the world. Not against the changing, remember – beyond. Beyond is not against. ”Beyond” means LIVE in it, but live in such a way that you remain above it.

Don’t enforce – enjoy the inner. It is not a question of forcing. Meditation should not be enforced; you should not start a kind of regimentation, a violent discipline. You are not a soldier.

CEASE TO TAKE FOR YOURSELF

WHAT TO OTHERS ARE RICHES.

And the Isa Upanishad is not saying that, renounce the world. It says:

... CEASE TO TAKE FOR YOURSELF...

Don’t possess, don’t become owners of persons or things; just use them as a gift of the universe. And when they are available, use them; when they are not available. enjoy the freedom. When you have something, enjoy it; when you don’t have it, enjoy not having it – that too has its own beauty. It may seem like riches for them, but not for you.

CONTINUING TO ACT IN THE WORLD,

ONE MAY ASPIRE TO BE ONE HUNDRED.

Continue to act in the world, Aspire to live long and aspire to live deep, and aspire to live intensely and passionately – perfectly right! Even living and acting in the world you can become one. So there is no need to renounce.

THUS, AND ONLY THUS, CAN A MAN BE FREE

FROM THE BINDING INFLUENCE OF ACTION.

Not by renouncing action but by acting in such awareness, in such deep meditativeness, one becomes free of action and its binding effects.

UNILLUMINED INDEED ARE THOSE WORLDS CLOUDED

BY THE BLINDING DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE.

Upanishads call people ignorant... if they are living in the half they are ignorant. The materialist is ignorant, the spiritualist is ignorant, because both are unaware of the whole. Only the one who knows the whole knows.

INTO THIS DEATH SINK ALL THOSE WHO SLAY THE SELF.

And by dividing your being into two, is like slaying your very being, murdering yourself, killing yourself Don’t cripple yourself, don’t paralyze yourself. Accept your totality and live it joyously.

AUM

PURNAMADAH

PURNAMIDAM

PURNAT PURNAMUDACHYATE

PURNASYA PURNAMADAYA

PURNAMEVA VASHISHYATE.

AUM

AUM

THAT IS THE WHOLE.

THIS IS THE WHOLE.

FROM WHOLENESS EMERGES WHOLENESS.

WHOLENESS COMING FROM WHOLENESS,

WHOLENESS STILL REMAINS.

AUM