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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 2 · Brāhmaṇa 4

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 2.4.14

यत्र हि द्वैतम् इव भवति तद् इतर इतरं जिघ्रति तद् इतर इतरं पश्यति तद् इतर इतरं शृणोति तद् इतर इतरं जिघ्रति तद् इतर इतरम् अभिवदति तद् इतर इतरं मनुते तद् इतर इतरं विजानाति ।
यत्र वास्य सर्वम् आत्मैवाभूत् तत् केन कं जिघ्रेत् तत् केन कं जिघ्रेत् तत् केन कं पश्येत् तत् केन कं शृणुयात् तत् केन कम् अभिवदेत् तत् केन कं मन्वीत तत् केन कं विजानीयात् ।
येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति तं केन विजानीयात् ।
विज्ञातारम् अरे केन विजानीयाद् इति ॥

yatra hi dvaitam iva bhavati tad itara itaraṃ jighrati tad itara itaraṃ paśyati tad itara itaraṃ śṛṇoti tad itara itaraṃ jighrati tad itara itaram abhivadati tad itara itaraṃ manute tad itara itaraṃ vijānāti ।
yatra vāsya sarvam ātmaivābhūt tat kena kaṃ jighret tat kena kaṃ jighret tat kena kaṃ paśyet tat kena kaṃ śṛṇuyāt tat kena kam abhivadet tat kena kaṃ manvīta tat kena kaṃ vijānīyāt ।
yenedaṃ sarvaṃ vijānāti taṃ kena vijānīyāt ।
vijñātāram are kena vijānīyād iti ॥

'For when there is as it were duality, then one sees the other, one smells the other, one hears the other, one salutes the other, one perceives the other, one knows the other; but when the Self only is all this, how should he smell another, how should he see another, how should he hear another, how should he salute another, how should he perceive another, how should he know another? How should he know Him by whom he knows all this? How, O beloved, should he know (himself), the Knower?'

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 15 (1884)

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