Behold the universe in the glory of God: and all that lives and moves on earth. Leaving the transient, find joy in the Eternal: set not your heart on another's possession.
The Spirit moves and moves not. He is far,
and he is near. He is within all, and he is outside all.
Who sees all beings in his own Self,
and his
own Self in all beings loses all fear.
When a sage sees this great Unity and his Self has become all beings, what delusion and what sorrow can ever be near him?
The Spirit filled all with his radiance. He
is incorporeal and invulnerable,
pure and untouched by evil. He is the Supreme
seer and thinker,
immanent and transcendent. He placed all things in the path
of Eternity.
He who knows both the
transcendent and the immanent, with the immanent overcomes death and with the
transcendent reaches immortality.
The
face of truth remains hidden behind a circle of gold.
Unveil it, O god of
light, that I who love the true may see!
O life-giving sun, off-spring of the Lord of creation,
solitary seer of
heaven! Spread thy light and withdraw
thy blinding splendour that I may behold
my radiant form:
that Spirit far away within thee is my own inmost Spirit.
May life go to immortal life, and the body go
to ashes,
OM. O my soul, remember past strivings, remember!
O my soul, remember
past strivings, remember!
(The Upanishads, translated
from the Sanskrit by Juan Mascaró,
Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1965, pp. 50-51)
