Mircea Eliade YOGA IMMORTALITY AND ... - Brihaspati.net

Yama Naciketas informed the secret of "fire way to Heaven" (I, 14); fire that can be
understood as ritual fire, or a "mystic fire" ori-ginado by the lids. This fire is "the bridge
to the supreme Brahman" (III, 2), the image of the bridge, already commonplace in the
Brahmana, is in the earliest Upanishads (Chand, Up, VIII, 4, 1-2); moreover, is attested
by numerous and significant traditions generally initiatory passage from one mode to
another (see our Shamanism, ps. 353, 419). But the most important are the teaching
concemientes the "granviaje" habertratado after in vain to lure Naciketas this problem,
propose-pilation innumerable earthly goods, Yama reveals the great mystery, the atman,
which "can not be achieved by exegesis, not by intellect, nor by much study. It can only
be reached by Yama select "(II, 23, trans. L. Renou). The last row mystical hue betrays a
more pronounced in the next chapter, by the referenda to Vishnu (III, 9).
The man who is master of himself is compared to a skilful driver who knows how to
dominate your senses: a man that reaches liberation. "Know that the atman is the owner
of the car, the body is the chariot itself, that the reason is the driver and thought are the
reins. The senses are the horses, they say, and the objects of the senses, your (...). The
race that has learned with yoked always thought, is subject to the senses are like good
horses to the coachman (• • ■). He who has knowledge, and is supplied with thought,
always pure , arrives at that place where one is born again "(III, 3-4,6, 8, trans. Renou).
Although no yoga behalf, the image is specifically Yogi throw the reins, the driver and
the good horses> us back to the etymon yuj, "man-tner oppressed, put under a yoke"
(same image in the Maitrayani
Vp., II, 6).
Moreover, another verse helps to determine: "He was com-prises under the name of
Yoga, this firm grip on the senses. Then it becomes one focusing ..." (VI, 11; VI, 18:
"Then Naciketas, having received, through the teaching of Death, this science and
comprehensive description of yoga, leading to Brahman was exempt from old age, was
released from death). Final-mind, a detail of physiology Yogi kept a slogan in the
Chandogya Up, VIII, 6, 6, we are told that "there are one hundred a vein in the heart, of
which only one rises to the head; going up for her to immortality "(VI, 16). This allusion
is important: we reveal the existence of a system of mystical physiology upon which
subsequent texts, notably the Upanishads yogis and tantric literature, provide details with
increasing frequency.
"The man who has the knowledge coachman to the thoughts by way of reins, reaches the
other side of the trip, the supreme place of Visnu" (tadvisnoh paramam
sodhvanahparamapnoti padam), said the Khata Up (III, 9 -) . There is still the Visnu of
epic poetry or that of the Purana, but their role in this early Yoga Upanishads that is used
to obtain both the knowledge of the atman as immortality, and the trend indicates the
large non - thesis further: The three main paths of liberation: upanisbidico knowledge,
technique yoga, bhakti, will be phased-approved and integrated mind. This process is
further advanced, yet in a Upanishad of the same era, the Svetasvatara, that instead of
Vishnu, Siva worships. Nowhere is so frequently expressed the equality of mystical
knowledge and the immortal-ity. "
9 immortality through God (I, 6), when Hara (Shiva) is cone-down, "stop the birth and
death" (I, 11), who knows Rudra (Siva) becomes immortal (III, 1) Lord who recognizes
as the supreme Brahman, attains immortality (III, 7), "the man who truly knows him,