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Essence of the Kenopanishad - 7. Swami Sivananda

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========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 25, 2020. 7. Liberation at Hand : ----------------------------------------------------------------- 102. Brahma-Jnana destroys ignorance just as light destroys darkness and reveals one's inherent immortal nature. 103. Ignorance is the root cause of all human suffering. 104. If one does not know Brahman, he is caught in the round of births and deaths. 105. Really thirsty aspirants abandon the erroneous notion of I and Mine and turn away with disgust from the world, as everything here is perishable, illusory and transitory. 106. They practise meditation on the Atman and behold the one essence of the Atman in all objects. They realise the oneness of the Self or the unity of the Atman in all, and become immortal. They become Brahman. 107. He who knows that highest Brahman becomes Brahman itself. 108. He w

Essence of the Kenopanishad - 6. Swami Sivananda

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===================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May, 11, 2020. 6. Truth Transcendental ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 76. There is no objective and subjective consciousness for the sage; subject and object are the same for him. He sees only Brahman everywhere. 77. The Self or Soul of everyone is Brahman. 78. Brahman cannot be made the object of the knowledge of another, because besides it none that knows exists. 79. Brahman is different from what is known. It is also beyond what is not known. 80. He who is endowed with the four means, and who is pure and intelligent, can understand the teachings of the Upanishads. 81. Brahman is always the silent witnessing consciousness. He is the subject, knower and seer. 82. The seer can never be seen. 83. The knower can never be known by the intellect. 84. Anything perceived by