The Fourteenth Kha??a
The Fourteenth Kha??a
SOURCE: The Thirteen Principal Upanishads. Translated from the Sanskrit with an outline of the philosophy of the Upanishads and an annotated bibliography by Robert Ernest Hume. With a list of recurrent and parallel passages by George C. O. Haas. 2d ed., rev. London: Oxford University Press, 1931, p. 249.
1. Just as, my dear, one might lead away from the Gandh?ras a person with his eyes bandaged, and then abandon him in an uninhabited place; as there he might be blown forth either to the east, to the north, or to the south, since he had been led off with his eyes bandaged and deserted with his eyes bandaged; [2] as, if one released his bandage and told him, "In that direction are the Gandh?ras; go in that direction!" he would, if he were a sensible man, by asking [his way] from village to village, and being informed, arrive home at the Gandh?ras—even so here on earth one who has a teacher knows: "I shall remain here only so long as I shall not be released [from the bonds of ignorance]. Then I shall arrive home."
3. That which is the finest essence—this whole world has that as its soul. That is Reality. That is ?tman (Soul). That ?vetaketu.' art thou, ?vetaketu.'
'Do you, sir, cause me to understand even more.'
'So be it, my dear,' said he.