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The Upanishads as translated by Ecknath Easwaren...
The Isha Upanishad
1- The Lord is enshrined in the hearts of all.
The Lord is the supreme Reality.
Rejoice in him through renunciation.
Covet nothing. All belongs to the Lord.
2- Thus working may you live a hundred years.
Thus alone will you work in real freedom.
3- Those who deny the Self are born again
Blind to the Self, enveloped in darkness,
Utterly devoid o f love for the Lord.
4- The Self is one. Ever still, the Self is
Swifter than thought, swifter than the senses.
Though motionless, he outruns all pursuit.
Without the Self, never could life exist.
5- The Self seems to move, but is ever still.
He seems far away, but is ever near.
He is within all, and he transcends all.
6- Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no fear.
7- Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no grief.
How can the multiplicity o f life
Delude the one who sees its unity?
8- The Self is everywhere. Bright is the Self,
Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise,
Immanent and transcendent. He it is
Who holds the cosmos together.
9-11- In dark night live those for whom
The world without alone is real; in night
Darker still, for whom the world within
Alone is real. The first leads to a life
O f action, the second to a life o f meditation.
But those who combine action with meditation
Cross the sea o f death through action
And enter into immortality
Through the practice o f meditation.
So have we heard from the wise.
12-14- In dark night live those for whom the Lord
Is transcendent only; in night darker still,
For whom he is immanent only.
But those for whom he is transcendent
And immanent cross the sea o f death
With the immanent and enter into
Immortality with the transcendent.
So have we heard from the wise.
15- The face of truth is hidden by your orb
Of gold, O sun. May you remove your orb
So that I, who adore the true, may see
The glory of truth.
16- O nourishing sun,
Solitary traveler, controller,
Source of life for all creatures, spread your light
And subdue your dazzling splendor
So that I may see your blessed Self.
Even that very Self am I!
17- May my life merge in the Immortal
When my body is reduced to ashes.
O mind, meditate on the eternal Brahman.
Remember the deeds o f the past.
Remember, O mind, remember.
18- O god of fire, lead us by the good path
To eternal joy. You know all our deeds.
Deliver us from evil, we who bow
And pray again and again.
-----------oM shanti shanti shanti
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THE VEDAS AND THE UPANISHADS
>Around 2000 B. C., scholars believe, groups of Indo-European-speaking peoples calling themselves Arya, or noble, began to enter the Indian subcontinent through the Hindu Kush. There, in the Indus river valley, they found a civilization already a thousand years old, thriving and advanced in technology and trade. From the fusion of these two cultures, the Aryan and the Indus Valley, Indian civilization was born.
>The Aryans brought their gods and a religion based on ritual sacrifice, with lyrical, life-affirming hymns meant for incantation in an ancient form of Sanskrit. These hymns, dating from perhaps 1500 B.C., reveal an intimate, almost mystical bond between worshipper and environment, a simultaneous sense of awe and kinship with the spirit that dwells in all things. Even in translation they have a compelling beauty. They worship natural forces and the elemental powers of life: sun and wind, storm and rain, dawn and night, earth and heaven, fire and offering.
>These powers are the devas, gods and goddesses sometimes recognizable in other religions of Aryan origin. In the hymns they seem very near, present before us in the forms and forces of the natural world. Fire is Agni, worshipped as the actual fire on the hearth or altar and as the divine priest who carries offerings to the gods. The storm is Indra, leader of the gods and lord of war and thunder, who rides into battle on his swift chariot to fight the dragon-demon o f the sky or the enemies of the Aryan hosts. The wind is Vayu. Night is Ratri and the dawn is Usha, loveliest and most luminous o f the goddesses.The sun is Surya, who rides his chariot across the sky, or Savitri, the giver o f life. And death is Yama, the first being to die and thereby first in the underworld.
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Le Théâtre et son Double
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The West's first monks, these were the men who went out into Egypt and pioneered the Western traditions of ascetism and self-denial. This book is a collection of various sayings from them, mostly on virtues such as self-control, compunction, and sobriety.
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The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael A. Singer. Great read. I have a hard-copy and I go back and forth in it and it has all these pencil markings in there.