The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Svetasvatara Upanishad
Chapter I
Rishis, discoursing on Brahman, ask: Is Brahman the
cause? Whence are we born? By what do we live?
Where do we dwell at the end? Please tell us, O ye who
know Brahman, under whose guidance we abide,
whether in pleasure or in pain.
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Should time, or nature, or necessity, or chance, or the
elements be regarded as the cause? Or he who is called
the purusha, the living self?
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The sages, absorbed in meditation through onepointedness
of mind, discovered the creative power,
belonging to the Lord Himself and hidden in its own
gunas. That non-dual Lord rules over all those causestime,
the self and the rest.
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