ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : Mantram : 15.

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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD



Mantram-15.



Discussion- 4. Summation ....



But  what  right  has  the  seeker  to  demand  from  the  Supreme  such  an  unveiling,  is  explained  when  the  devotee  declares  that  the  Truth  should  reveal   Itself  unto  him,  for  "he  is  himself  a  practitioner  of  Truth".



This  is  very  significant  in  as-much-as  the  seeker's  goal  is  Truth,  his  path  is  Truth  and  this  very  path  of  Truth  is  laid  over  with  Truth  at  every  step.

In  religion,  means  are  as  sacred  as  the  goal.

Through  deceit  and  aniamalism  there  is no  path  at  all  laid  for b evolution,  progress,  peace,  or  perfection.



Continued  love  and  dedicated  loyalty  gives  to  the  lover  a  certain  secret  authority  over  this  beloved.

When  a  devotee  has  lived  sufficiently  long  a  full  life  of  Divine  pursuits,  his  expanding  heart  of  purity  and  faith  gurgles  up  a  flood  of  confidence  and  assurance  in  his  own  inner  nobility  and  in  the  Lord's  infinite  kindness.


In  this  confidence,  the  devotee  dares  even  to  command  the  Supreme  to  serve  Him  in  dire  moments.


The  power  to  command  comes  to  him  as  a  privilege  of  love,  in  the  authority  of  faith,  sanctioned  by  the  moral  dignity  that  comes  to  him  as  a  result  of  his  chaste  life  of
 "Tapas"  : "SATYA-DHARMAYA-DRSTAYE" ( Second line last 3 terms  of  the  mantram ).  
 
End.

Next : Mantram-16.

To be continued  ...


know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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