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Vedas and Upanishads
• The Primordial Vastness is the sky. The Primordial Vastness is the sphere of space. The Primordial Vastness is the mother, the father, the son. The Primordial Vastness is all the Gods, the five sorts of men, all that was born and shall be born.
-Rig Veda
• He is the inner Self of all, Hidden like a little flame in the heart. Only by the stilled mind can he be known. Those who realize him become immortal. He has thousands of heads, thousands of eyes, Thousands of feet; he surrounds the cosmos
On every side. This infinite being is ever present in the hearts of all. He has become the cosmos. He is what was and what will be. Yet he is unchanging, The lord of immortality.
-Shvetashvatara Upanishad
• Get up! Wake up! Seek the guidance of an Illuminated teacher and realize the Self. Sharp like a razor's edge, the sages say, Is the path, difficult to traverse.
-Katha Upanishad
• Only the one-pointed mind attains this state of unity. There is no one but the Self. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self Must wander on and on from death to death.
-Katha Upanishad
• The supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned, moved, pierced, cut, nor
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