DAILY WISDOM - 225 - 12. When One Knows That, One has Known Everything

🌹 DAILY WISDOM - 225 🌹

🍀 📖 from Lessons on the Upanishads 🍀

📝 Swami Krishnananda
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 12. When One Knows That, One has Known Everything 🌻

Teachers used to prescribe many years tapas—in the form of self-control—to students. That is why in ancient days the students were required to stay with the teacher for so many years. What do you do for so many years? Pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya (Gita 4.34): “Every day prostrating yourself before that person—questioning, studying and serving.” This is what you do with the Master. This process should continue for years until you are perfectly chastened and purified of all the dross of worldliness—Earthly longings, all rubbish of things.

These must be washed out completely and like a clean mirror, you approach the teacher; then, whatever knowledge is imparted to you will reflect in your personality as sunlight is reflected in a mirror. Thus, you receive something in depth in the Upanishads. The last portion, Vedanta, is also the name given to the Upanishads. Anta means the inner secret, the final word of the Veda or the last portion of the Veda—whatever is one's way of defining it. The quintessence, the final word, the last teaching of the Veda is the Upanishad, and beyond that there is nothing to say. When one knows That, one has known everything.


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27 Jan 2022