The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter XIV
The Means of Self-Knowledge
"Just as someone, my dear, might lead a person, with
his eyes covered, away from the country of the
Gandharas and leave him in a place where there were
no human beings; and just as that person would turn
toward the east, or the north, or the south, or the west,
shouting: „I have been brought here with my eyes
covered, I have been left here with my eyes covered!‟
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"And as thereupon someone might loosen the covering
and say to him: „Gandhara is in that direction; go that
way‟; and as thereupon, having been informed and being
capable of judgement, he would, by asking his way from
one village to another, arrive at last at Gandhara-in
exactly the same manner does a man who has found a
teacher to instruct him obtain the true knowledge. For
him there is delay only so long as he is not liberated
from the body; then he reaches perfection.
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"Now, that which is the subtle essence-in it all that
exists has its self. That is the True. That is the Self That
thou art, Svetaketu."
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