Upanishads

Amritabindu Upanishad

Krishnayajurveda
group of Upanishads – yoga

OM! Let us hear the joyful with our ears, O wondrous ones!
Let us see the joyful with our eyes, O saints!
With strong limbs, let us enjoy the appointed term of that wonderfully sent life!
[Give] us happiness, Indra, growing in glory!
[Give] us happiness, [Of happiness], Nourishing All-knowing!
[Give] us happiness, penetrating unharmed through the [starry?] wheel!
[Give] us happiness, Lord of prayer, affirming!

DROP OF IMMORTALITY

1. Thus it is said: the mind is of two kinds: pure and impure.
The impure is governed by desires, the pure is devoid of desires.

2. It is the mind that is the creator of human fetters and Deliverance.
The entangled is bound by things, the liberated is outside of things, according to legend.

3. Since from the mind, [located] outside of things, its deliverance comes,
Therefore, always [must be] outside of things the mind awaiting deliverance from the body.

4. When the connection with things is broken, the mind is enclosed in the heart.
Then the being itself appears – That highest state.

5. One should stop [the movement of thought], while in the heart there is a movement of contraction.
This is both knowledge and contemplation, the rest is [only] a multiplication of rules.

6. No matter how thinkable or unthinkable, the unthinkable is thinkable.
[When a person has escaped] attractions, then the Good is achieved.

7. Let the center be accomplished by sound, let it abide in the highest soundlessness;
By the realization of soundlessness, the existent, and not the non-existent, comes.

8. That is precisely the indivisible Good, unshakable, unclosed.
“That Good is I Myself” – having recognized, one becomes firmly good.

9. Unshakable and infinite, devoid of cause, example,
Having recognized the immeasurable and beginningless, the wise one is delivered.

10. [Where there is] “neither beginning, nor conclusion, nor torment, nor doer,
neither expectation of Deliverance, nor Deliverance” – such is this highest benefit.

11. Thus, the Self alone should be thought of in wakefulness, dreams, oblivion;
one who has overcome the three states does not know births again.

12. For the one self-existent, real in any being,
Appearing as one or many, is seen as the moon in water.

13. The pot is wrapped in space, the contents of the pot;
As the pot disappears – not space, so does the cloud-like living one.

14. Like pots, appearances disintegrate again and again,
that which has disintegrated, does not know about it, and eternally knows.

15. Covered with the haze of words, like darkness, does not move in the lotus.
And [when] the darkness disappears – only one sees.

16. The imperishable word is the Supreme Good, when the imperishable ceases in it;
Let him who sees the imperishable reflect, seeking peace himself.

17. Two things should be known: the good word, but also what is higher;
He who has penetrated into the good word comprehends the highest good.

18. Having understood wisdom from books, that highest knowledge-cognition,
like straw for the sake of grain, let him discard books altogether.

19. Cows are of different colors, milk is of only one color;
knowledge looks like milk, [and everything that] has signs is like cows.

20. As butter is hidden in cream, in every being knowledge is hidden,
it must be constantly churned with the mind, as if with a whisk.

21. Guided by the eye of knowledge, let him, like fire, be ignited by the highest,
Indivisible, motionless, calm, “then the Good is I myself,” according to legend.

22. The patron of all beings and also the one who is hidden in beings,
Creating mercy to all, then I am, a wondrous treasure, a wondrous treasure!