What the sages sought they have found at last.
No more questions have they to ask of life.
With self-will extinguished, they are at peace.
Seeing the Lord of Love in all around,
Serving the Lord of Love in all around,
they are united with him forever.
(Mundaka Up. 3:2:5, p. 117)
As the rain on a mountain peak runs off the slopes on all sides, so those who
see only the seeming multiplicity of life run after things on every side.
As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the
illumined man or woman, Nachiketa, verily become one with the Godhead.
(Katha Up. 1:14-15, p. 92)
The separate self dissolves in the sea of pure consciousness,
infinite and immortal. Separateness arises from identifying the Self
with the body, which is made up of the elements; when this physical
identification dissolves, there can be no more separte self.
This is what I want to tell you, beloved.
(Brihadaranyaka Up. Chapter 2, 4:12, p. 38)
As the rivers flowing east and west
Merge in the sea and become one with it,
Forgetting they were ever separate rivers,
So do all creatures lose their separateness
When they merge at last into pure Being.
(Chandogya Up. 10:1-2, pp. 184-185)
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