Principal Upanishads

Minor Upanishads

XIII-1-3: This universe is truly the Divine Person only. Therefore it subsists on Him – the self-effulgent Divine Being – who has many heads and many eyes, who is the producer of joy for the universe, who exists in the form of the universe, who is the master and the cause of humanity, whose forms are the various gods, who is imperishable, who is the all-surpassing ruler and saviour, who is superior to the world, who is endless and omniform, who is the goal of humanity, who is the destroyer of sin and ignorance, who is the protector of the universe and the ruler of individual souls, who is permanent, supremely auspicious and unchanging, who has embodied Himself in man as his support (being the indwelling Spirit), who is supremely worthy of being known by the creatures, who is embodied in the universe and who is the supreme goal.
   XIII-4: Narayana is the Supreme Reality designated as Brahman. Narayana is the highest (Self). Narayana is the supreme Light (described in the Upanishads). Narayana is the infinite Self. [Narayana is the most excellent meditator and meditation.]
   XIII-5: Whatsoever there is in this world known through perception (because of their proximity) or known through report (because of their distance), all that is pervaded by Narayana within and without.
   XIII-6: One should meditate upon the Supreme – the limitless, unchanging, all-knowing, cause of the happiness of the world, dwelling in the sea of one’s one heart, as the goal of all striving. The place for His meditation is the ether in the heart – the heart which is comparable to an inverted lotus bud.
   XIII-7: It should be known that the heart which is located just at the distance of a finger span below the Adam's apple and above the navel is the great abode of the universe.
   XIII-8: Like the bud of a lotus, suspends in an inverted position, the heart, surrounded by arteries. In it there is a narrow space (or near it there is a narrow space called Susumna). In it everything is supported.
   XIII-9-11: In the middle of that (narrow space of the heart or Susumna) remains the undecaying, all-knowing, omnifaced, great Fire, which has flames on every side, which enjoys the food presented before it, which remains assimilating the food consumed, (the rays of which spread scattering themselves vertically and horizontally), and which warms its own body from the insole to the crown. In the centre of that Fire Which permeates the whole body, there abides a tongue of Fire, of the colour of shining gold, which is the topmost among the subtle, which is dazzling like the flash of the lightning that appears in the middle of a rain-bearing cloud, which is as slender as the awn of a paddy grain; and which serves as a comparison to illustrate subtlety.
   XIII-12: Paramatman dwells in the middle of that flame. (Although He is thus limited) still He is the four-faced creator, Siva, Vishnu, Indra, the material and efficient cause of the Universe and the Supreme Self-luminous Pure Consciousness.

XIV-1: Verily Aditya is He; This orb of His gives light and heat; The well-known Rik verses are there; Therefore the orb is the collection of Riks; He is the abode of the Rik verses. Now this flame which is shining in the orb of the sun is the collection of Saman chants; That is the abode of Saman chants. Now He who is the Person in the flame within the orb of the sun (is to be meditated as) the collection of Yajus; that part of the orb is the collection of Yajus; That is the abode of Yajus. Thus by these three the threefold knowledge alone shines. He who is within the sun is the Golden Person.

XV-1: The sun alone is verily all these: -- energy, splendour, strength, renown, sight, hearing, body, mind, anger, Seer, the Deities Death, Satya, Mitra, Wind, Ether and Breath, the Rulers of the world, Prajapati, the Indeterminable One, happiness, that which transcends the senses, truth, food, (span of life), liberation or Immortality, individual Soul, the Universe, the acme of bliss and the self-born Brahman. This Person in the sun is eternal. He is the Lord of all creatures. He who meditates thus upon Him attains union with Brahman and lives in the same region of enjoyment with Him; he attains union, co-residence and like-enjoyment with these gods in their worlds. The secret knowledge is thus imparted.
XV-2: Aditya, the supreme cause of the universe, is the giver of light and water and is the source of all energy. He is denoted by the syllable Om. Gods worship Him as Tapas and Truth. (Being worshipped thus) He grants bliss to the worshippers. (Or the worshippers offer honey and sweet offerings to Him). That form of the sun is Brahman. That is the pervading cause of all. That is water, fire, flavour and ambrosia. The three Vyahritis representing the three worlds and the Pranava representing the cause of the universe denote that Brahman.

   XVI-1: [By these twenty-two names ending with salutations they consecrate the Sivalinga for all] – the Linga which is representative of soma and Surya, and holding which in the hand holy formulas are repeated and which purifies all:
   Nidhanapataye Namah !        [Salutations to the Lord of the dissolution of the universe !]
   Nidhanapataantikaya Namah !        [Salutations to the end-maker (Yama who is responsible for the death of all creatures) !]
   Urdhvaya Namah !        [Salutations to the Most High standing at the head of the categories which evolve into the universe !]
   Urdhva-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to the principle of Sadasiva embodying the power of Intelligence !]
   Hiranyaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is beneficial and charming to creatures !]
   Hiranya-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is visualized as the Linga made of gold !]
   Suvarnaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is endowed with attractive splendour !]
   Suvarna-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is of the form of Linga made of suvarna (silver) !]
   Divyaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is the source of bliss in heaven !]
   Divya-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is worshipped as the divine emblem !]
   Bhavaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is the source of the cycle of birth and death !]
   Bhava-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is worshipped as the Linga by human beings !]
   Sarvaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is the suppresser of the universe at the time of final dissolution !]
   Sarva-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who has the shape of the Linga emblem of Sarva, who gives bliss !]
   Shivaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is most auspicious !]
   Shiva-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who has the form of Sivalinga !]
   Jvalaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who has the form of a flaming splendour !]
   Jvala-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who has the form of the brilliant Linga !]
   Atmaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is the Spirit - Atman - dwelling in all creatures !]    Atma-Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is concealed in the heart of all creatures being their inmost Self !]
   Paramaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is unsurpassed !]
   Parama Lingaya Namah !        [Salutations to Him, He who is the Supreme Lord of bliss and liberation indicated by the Linga emblem !]

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