Shvetashvatara Upanishad

The Shvetashvatara Upanishad is one of the Upanishads.

Quotes

• When one has known God, all the fetters fall off;

by the eradication of the blemishes, birth and death come to an end;

by meditating on him, one obtains, at the dissolution of the body, a third—sovereignty over all;

and in the absolute one's desires are fulfilled.

• 1.11

• Like oil in sesame seeds and butter in curds,

like water in the riverbed and fire in the fire-drills,

so, when one seeks it with truth and austerity,

one grasps that self (atman) in the body (atman)—

that all-pervading self,

which is contained [in the body],

like butter in milk.

That is brahman,

the highest object of the teachings on hidden connections (upaniṣad),

an object rooted in austerity and the knowledge of the self.

• 1.15-16

• When, by means of the true nature of the self, which resembles a lamp,

a man practicing yogic restraint sees here the true nature of brahman,

he is freed from all fetters, because he has known God, unborn, unchanging, and unsullied by all objects.

• 2.15

• This God does pervade all quarters.

He was born the first,

yet he remains within the womb.

He it is, who was born;

he, who will be born.

His face everywhere,

he stands turning west toward men.

• 2.16