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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The Vedas recognize divine karma (the action of God) as the source of all creation, preservation and destruction. However, since God performs them without desires, unlike human beings he is not bound by them. From the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1) we learn that karma is one of the triple causes of diversity, the other two being name and form. The diversity in names arises from speech, and the diversity in forms comes from the eye, whereas the (mind and) body is the sources for the diversity in actions. For all actions, the body is the source, the controller, or the lord. Within the body, the mind, the speech, breath, the organs of action, and the organs of perception are considered the main deities who receive their share of food from the body and perform their actions. However, we cannot fully rely upon them to fight the impurities and the evil that can infest our body, since they are all vulnerable to evil and demonic actions, thoughts, desires, temptations, a
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KAUSITAKI UPANISHAD


“Who art thou?” The sage asks. “I am thou,” he replies.
Being freed from good and freed from evil he, the knower of Brahman, moves towards Brahman. Only by knowledge he sees clearly.

I am like a season, and the child of the seasons, sprung from the womb of the endless space, from the light from the luminous Brahman. The light, the origin of the year, which is the past, which is the present, which is all living beings, and all elements, is the Atman. Thou art the Atman. What thou art, that am I.

When a person is so asleep that he sees no dream whatever, then he becomes one with that vital breath. Then speech together with all names goes to it; the eye together with all forms goes to it; the ear together with all sounds goes to it; the mind together with all thoughts goes to it. When he awakes, as from a blazing fire sparks would fly in all directions, even so from this self the vital breaths proceed to their respective stations; from the vital breaths, the senses, from the gods, the worlds. The same vital breath, the self of intelligence, seizes hold of the body and raises it up. 

One has to win the pure knowledge of the unity of Brahman and Atman
Speech is not what one should seek to know, one should know the speaker
Smell is not what one should seek to know, one should know the smeller.
Form is not what one should seek to know, one should know the seer.
Sound is not what one should seek to know, one should know the hearer.
Taste of food is what one should seek to know, one should know the knower of the taste of food.
Deed is not what one should seek to know, one should know the doer.
Pleasure and pain are not what one should seek to know; one should know the discerner of pleasure and pain.
Bliss, delight and procreation are not what one should seek to know, one should know the discerner of bliss, delight and procreation.
Going is not what one should seek to know, one should know the goer.

Mind is not what one should seek to know, one should know the thinker.


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  1. KrutikaFebruary 17, 2022 at 12:23 AM

    "Amazing write-up!"

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  2. Sakshi ShimpiFebruary 28, 2022 at 5:35 PM

    "Nice info!"
    Marvelous Thoughts.
    Keep it up Merrill.!

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  3. UnknownMarch 8, 2022 at 8:12 PM

    Simple language, rhythmic presentation of proverbs
    Astonishing brother keep it up.

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