ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -1.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD 



Mantram -1.


Discussion-6. on 'change' to be continued ....


And  detecting  this  Light  of  Truth  is  no  miraculous  accident  or  arduous  achievement.

Pause  for  a  moment  and  analyse  any  experience  and  we  can  experience  the  ever  shining 
Reality  behind  all  changes.

The  fact  is  that  we  cannot  experience  chang  except  with  reference  to  some  changeless  factors;  with  reference  to  the  relatively  steady  trees  on  the  roadside  alone  can  we  detect  the  rate  of  change  in  our  moving  vehicle.

We  know  the  world  is  changing  ----   but  with  reference  to  what? 

We  know  the  very  instrument  of  our  experiences,  body-mind-intellect,  are  ever  changing  ---
but  with  reference to  what?

Are  these  momentary  shows  to  screen  the  Paramount  Divinity  for  ever?

That  changeless  entity  which  is  ever  present  in  all  changes,  yet  itself  never  undergoing  any  change  at  any  time,  is  the  Truth  which  is  to  be  detected,  followed,  and  ultimately  apprehended  by  us  in  the  quiet  of  our  meditation.


   

For  example,  yonder  stands  a  tree.

If  we  analyse  our  experience  of  the  tree,  we  will  have  to  accept  that  our  concept  of  that  tree  is  nothing  but  a  sum  total  of  our  knowledge  of  its  form,  sound,  taste,  smell,  and  touch.

These  are  impressions  interpreted  to  us  by  our  sense-organs.

If  there  are  no  sense-organs,  these  impressions  canot  be,  but,  when  the  tree is  destroyed  and  it  leaves  no  more  any  impressions  in  our  ind,  it  is  a  zero  factor  because,  when  we  were  observing  these  factors,  we  were  also  unconsciously  observing  another  common  quality
running  uniformly  through  all  these  factors.

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