The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

having realized Brahman to be the essence of
phenomena, become devoted to Him. Completely
merged in Brahman, they attain freedom from rebirth.
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The Lord, Isa, supports all this which has been joined
together-the perishable and the imperishable, the
manifest, the effect and the unmanifest, the cause. The
same Lord, the Supreme Self, devoid of Lordship,
becomes bound because of assuming the attitude of the
enjoyer. The jiva again realizes the Supreme Self and is
freed from all fetters.
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The Supreme Lord appears as Isvara, omniscient and
omnipotent and as the jiva, of limited knowledge and
power, both unborn. But this does not deny the
phenomenal universe; for there exists further the
unborn prakriti, which creates the ideas of the enjoyer,
enjoyment and the object. Atman is infinite and allpervading
and therefore devoid of agency. When the
seeker knows all these three to be Brahman, he is freed
from his fetters.
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