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"There is a town with eleven gates belonging to the Unborn (Brahman), whose thoughts are never crooked. He who approa…
He (Brahman) is the swan (sun), dwelling in the bright heaven; he is the Vasu (air), dwelling in the sky; he is the s…
He (Brahman) it is who sends up the breath (prâna), and who throws back the breath (apâna). All the Devas (senses) wo…
When that incorporated (Brahman), who dwells in the body, is torn away and freed from the body, what remains then? Th…
No mortal lives by the breath that goes up and by the breath that goes down. We live by another, in whom these two re…
Well then, O Gautama, I shall tell thee this mystery, the old Brahman, and what happens to the Self, after reaching d…
Some enter the womb in order to have a body, as organic beings, others go into inorganic matter, according to their w…
He, the highest Person, who is awake in us while we are asleep, shaping one lovely sight after another, that indeed i…
As the one fire, after it has entered the world, though one, becomes different according to whatever it burns, thus t…
As the one air, after it has entered the world, though one, becomes different according to whatever it enters, thus t…
As the sun, the eye of the whole world, is not contaminated by the external impurities seen by the eyes, thus the one…
There is one ruler, the Self within all things, who makes the one form manifold. The wise who perceive him within the…
There is one eternal thinker, thinking non-eternal thoughts, who, though one, fulfils the desires of many. The wise w…
They perceive that highest indescribable pleasure, saying, This is that. How then can I understand it? Has it its own…
The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less this fire. When he shin…