The Upanishads - An Introduction
"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny" The Upanishads , the Bhagavad Gita , and the Dhammapada - are among the earliest and most universal of messages, sent to inform us that there is more to life than the everyday experience of our senses. The Upanishads are the oldest, so varied that we feel some unknown collectors must have tossed into a jumble all the photos, postcards, and letters from this world that they could find, without any regard for source or circumstance. Thrown together like this, they form a kind of ecstatic slide show - snapshots of towering peaks of consciousness taken at various times by different observers and dispatched with just the barest kind of explanation. The Dhammapada , too, is a collection - traditionally, sayings of the Buddha, one of the very greatest of explorers of consciousness. In this case the messages have been sorted, but not...
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