Isha Upanishad

The Isha Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads. It is a single poem consisting of 18 verses.

Quotes

Olivelle, Patrick (1998). The Early Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512435-9. 

• This whole world is to be dwelt in by the Lord,

whatever living being there is in the world.

• Verse 1

• Although not moving, the one is swifter than the mind;

the gods cannot catch it, as it speeds on in front.

Standing, it outpaces others who run;

within it Mātariśvan places the waters.

It moves—yet it does not move!

It's far away—yet it is near at hand!

It is within this whole world—yet

it's also outside this whole world.

• Verses 4–5

• Knowledge and ignorance—

a man who knows them both together,

Passes beyond death by ignorance,

and by knowledge attains immortality.

• Verse 12

• The becoming and the destruction—

a man who knows them both together;

Passes beyond death by the destruction,

and by the becoming attains immortality.

• Verse 14