Singularity

„There is an ancient path
extremely fine and extending far;
It has touched me, I’ve discovered it!
By it they go up to the heavenly world
          released from here,
          wise men, knowers of brahman.
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In it are the white and the blue, they say,
          the orange, green, and red,
By brahman was this path discovered;
By it goes the knower of brahman,
          the doer of good, the man of light.
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If a person truly perceives the self,
          knowing ’I am he’.
What possibly could he want,
Whom possibly could he love,
          that he should worry about his body?
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The self has entered this body, this dense jumble.
          If a man finds him,
          Recognizes him,
He’s the maker of everything – the author of all!
The world is his – he’s the world itself!
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While we are still here, we have come to know it.
If you’ve not known it, great is your destruction.
Those who have known it – they become immortal.
As for the rest – only suffering awaits them.
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When a man clearly sees this self as god,
          the lord of what was
          and of what will be,
He will not seek to hide from him.
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Beneath which the year revolves
          together with its days,
That the gods venerate
          as the light of lights,
          as life immortal.
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The breathing behind breathing, the sight behind sight,
          the hearing behind hearing, the thinking behind thinking –
Those who know this perceive brahman,
          the first,
          the ancient.
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With the mind alone one must behold it –
          there is here nothing diverse at all!
From death to death he goes, who sees
          here any kind of diversity.
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As just singular one must behold it –
          immeasurable and immovable.
The self is spotless and beyond space,
          unborn, immense, immovable.
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By knowing that very one a wise Brahmin
          should obtain insight for himself.
Let him not ponder over a lot of words;
          it just tires the voice!“
(„Upanisads“)