Wisdom from the Upanishads

[blazeofglory]

In fact all I see is that the Upanishads are the sources of all knowledge. Not that there are no other sources than the Upanishads. There are of course many others. But the roots or the origins of all are the Upanishads.
I am an agnostic by proclivity but I am open to all. I unfreeze my mind. I do not want to live with a mental block. When I come across certain ideas, theories or convincing notions I thaw. I do not choose rigidity and stringency in point of fact.
Of late I have read the Brihandaranyaka Upanishad. I got something really revealing. I got immersed in the essence. I have come to know the truth I have half-understood and now with this knowledge I am closer to the truth I have been seeking for eternity.
This is no argument for or against theism or atheism. I do not support or oppose any idea centring on this question. Yet the fact I arrived at is that there were indeed wise men in the ancient world and we have many things to learn from them.
I do not choose subjectivity or to put it totally differently, I do not like to color it up with my understandings or interpretations of it. Different persons made different interpretations of the Gita and the Upanishads.
I just want to share with you what I felt after going thru the Upanishads. I take it as unmatched sources of knowledge, Guyana
In fact I have never come across any deeper source of Guyana as I have come across today. This is a great revelation. I have yet to explore. The Vedas say, this is not the end, Neti, Neti.

[NikolaiI]

I have limited reading in the Upanishads, only reading some excerpts form them, such as the Taittirīya, the Śvetāśvatara, the Muṇḍaka, Chāndogya, Kaṭha; the only one which I've read fully is the Sri Isopanisad. I too thought they were unequalled sources of wisdom, just from the selected (limited) excerpts I've read. Looking at them online I see they are very great in length. I have more familiarity with the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam.

[NikolaiI]

From the Katha Upanisad,

Smaller than the small, greater than the great is the self located in the heart of every being. A man who is free from desires beholds the glory of the self through the purification of the organs and the mind and goes beyond grief.

The wise man who ascertains the self as bodiless in the midst of the bodies, as steady in the midst of the unsteady, as vast and all-pervading, does not grieve.

The self cannot be attained by the studies of the Vedas, or by intellect or by much learning. The Self the seeker yearns for is attained through that (yearning). To him the Self reveals Its own being.

He who does not refrain from wicked deeds, whose senses are not under control, whose mind is not settled, nor tranquil, cannot attain the Self through intellect alone.

[oopsycandy]

Ive never read any of the upanishads.

I liked some of that though. Hmm will have to read up and get back to you!

Thanks x