Kenopanishad

The Kenopanishad derives its name from the first word Kena, meaning ‘by whom’. 

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The disciple asked: Om. By whose will directed does the mind proceed to its object? At whose command does the prana, the foremost, do its duty? At whose will do men utter speech? Who is the god that directs the eyes and ears?

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The teacher replied: It is the Ear of the ear, the Mind of the mind, the Speech of speech, the Life of life, and the Eye of the eye. Having detached the Self from the sense-organs and renounced the world, the Wise attain to Immortality.

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The eye does not go thither, nor speech, nor the mind. We do not know It; we do not understand how anyone can teach It. It is different from the known; It is above the unknown. Thus we have heard from the preceptors of old who taught It to us.

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That which cannot be expressed by speech, but by which speech is expressed-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

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That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

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That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

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That which cannot he heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

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That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Chapter II
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The teacher said: If you think: "I know Brahman well," then surely you know but little of Its form; you know only Its form as conditioned by man or by the gods. Therefore Brahman, even now, is worthy of your inquiry.

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The disciple said: I think I know Brahman. The disciple said: I do not think I know It well, nor do I think I do not know It. He among us who knows the meaning of "Neither do I not know, nor do I know"-knows Brahman.

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He by whom Brahman is not known, knows It; he by whom It is known, knows It not. It is not known by those who know It; It is known by those who do not know It.

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Brahman is known when It is realised in every state of mind; for by such Knowledge one attains Immortality. By Atman one obtains strength; by Knowledge, Immortality

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If a man knows Atman here, he then attains the true goal of life. If he does not know It here, a great destruction awaits him. Having realised the Self in every being, the wise relinquish the world and become immortal.

Chapter III
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Brahman, according to the story, obtained a victory for the gods; and by that victory of Brahman the gods became elated. They said to themselves: "Verily, this victory is ours; verily, this glory is ours only."

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Brahman, to be sure, understood it all and appeared before them. But they did not know who that adorable Spirit was.

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They said to Agni (Fire): "O Agni! Find out who this great Spirit is." "Yes," he said, and hastened to It. Brahman asked him: "Who are you?" He replied: "I am known as Agni; I am also called Jataveda." Brahman said: "What power is in you, who are so well known?" Fire replied: "I can burn all-whatever there is on earth." Brahman put a straw before him and said: "Burn this." He rushed toward it with all his ardour but could not burn it. Then he returned from the Spirit and said to the gods: "I could not find out who this Spirit is,"

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Then they said to Vayu (Air): "O Vayu! Find out who this great Spirit is." "Yes," he said, and hastened to It. Brahman asked him: "Who are you?" He replied "I am known as Vayu; I am also called Matarisva." Brahman said: "What power is in you, who are so well known?" Vayu replied: "I can carry off all-whatever there is on earth." Brahman put a straw before him and said: "Carry this." He rushed toward it with all his ardour but could not move it. Then he returned from the Spirit and said to the gods: "I could not find out who this Spirit is,"

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Then the gods said to Indra: "O Maghavan! Find out who this great Spirit is." "Yes," he said and hastened to It. But the Spirit disappeared from him. Then Indra beheld in that very region of the sky a Woman highly adorned. She was Uma, the daughter of the Himalayas. He approached Her and said: "Who is this great Spirit?"

Chapter IV
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She replied: "It is, indeed, Brahman. Through the victory of Brahman alone have you attained glory." After that Indra understood that It was Brahman.

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Since they approached very near Brahman and were the first to know that It was Brahman, these devas, namely, Agni, Vayu, and Indra, excelled the other gods.

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Since Indra approached Brahman nearest, and since he was the first to know that It was Brahman, Indra excelled the other gods.

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This is the instruction about Brahman with regard to the gods: It is like a flash of lightning; It is like a wink of the eye.

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Now the instruction about Brahman with regard to the individual self: The mind, as it were, goes to Brahman. The seeker, by means of the mind, communes with It intimately again and again. This should be the volition of his mind.

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That Brahman is called Tadvana, the Adorable of all; It should be worshipped by the name of Tadvana. All creatures desire him who worships Brahman thus.

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The disciple said; 'Teach me, sir, the Upanishad." The preceptor replied: "I have already told you the Upanishad. I have certainly told you the Upanishad about Brahman."

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Austerities, self-restraint, and sacrificial rites are Its feet, and the Vedas are all Its limbs. Truth is Its abode.

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He who thus knows this Upanishad shakes off all sins and becomes firmly established in the infinite and the highest Heaven, yea, the highest Heaven.

http://www.ishwar.com/hinduism/holy_upanishads/kena_upanishad/
http://www.vivekananda.net/PDFBooks/upanishads_nikhilananda.pdf

Technique:Imagine yourself as a portion of an invisible universe

A group of cells forms an organ. A group of selves forms a soul. The entity then, or greater self, is composed of souls.

The cell does not need to be consciously aware of you in order to fulfill itself, even though your expectations of health largely influence its existence,
but your recognition of the soul and entity can help you direct energies from these other dimensions into your daily life.

Souls are also creative psychic structures, ever-changing and yet always retaining individual integrity (pause), and all are dependent one upon the other. Souls make up the life of the entity in those terms. Yet the entity is 'more' than the soul is.

When you are aware of the existence of the entity and of the soul, you can consciously draw upon their greater energy, understanding and strength.

Imagine yourself as a portion of an invisible universe, but one in which all the stars and planets are conscious and full of indescribable energy. You are aware of this. Think of this universe as having the form of a body. If you want to, visualize its outline brilliant against the sky. The suns and planets are your cells, each filled with energy and power but awaiting your direction. Then see this image exploding into your own consciousness, which is unbelievably bright. Realize that it is a portion of a far greater multidimensional structure, spread out in an even richer dimension. Feel the entity sending you energy as you send energy to your cells. Let it fill your being and then direct it physically any place within your body that you choose.

If instead there is a physical event that you strongly desire, then use that energy to imagine its actual occurrence as vividly as you can. If you follow these directions and understand the meaning for them as given, you will find the results most startling and effective. Energy may be directed to any portion of the body, and if you do not block its actions by disbeliefs, that portion will be cured. Remember, however: If you hold the belief that you are a sickly person, that can hinder you. [In that case, then, to] change that particular kind of belief is your first concern. One of the purposes of this book is to tell you that no one is born to be a sickly person, so reading it can help you there.

In your terms, if you believe that you chose illness to compensate for a past-life deficiency, then it will help you to realize that you form your reality now in your present, and can therefore change it.

-Seth, Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality

http://www.gestaltreality.com/downloads/Compilation%20of%20Exercises%20-%20Seth%20and%20Jane%20Roberts.pdf

Technique:Imagination - Practical Solutions

If you are a woman in an unhappy marriage, for example, you may begin by imagining yourself with a fine suitor. No Sir Galahad may appear, but if the exercise is pursued properly you will automatically begin to feel loved, and therefore worthy of love, and lovable, where before you felt rejected, unworthy and inferior. This feeling of being loved will alter your reality, drawing love to you. You will act loved. Your spouse may then find you exhibiting characteristics of a most pleasant nature, and he himself may change

Often your freewheeling, 'silly,' seemingly unrealistic imagination will bring you quite practical solutions to your problems, for if the exercise is done properly you will be automatically releasing yourself from restrictions that you have taken for granted. Even if a direct solution does not appear, rejuvenation will of itself begin to point you in the proper direction.

-Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality

http://www.vielewelten.at/pdf_en/jane%20roberts.pdf

Technique:Chanting Aum at the Chakras

"Concentrate at the point between the eyebrows, and go up the spine mentally chanting 'Aum' at each of the centers: coccyx, sacral, lumbar, dorsal, cervical, medulla, Christ center. Now mentally go down the spine chanting 'Aum' at each of these centers. Go deeper and deeper in concentration, up and down the spine, mentally feeling the centers and mentally chanting 'Aum'. As you do this, you see that your consciousness is no longer locked in the external awareness of the body, but becomes centered in higher spiritual perceptions in the spine. Relax in God. Don't be tied to the consciousness of the body. Let your mind go deeper and deeper in the thought of God."

--Paramahansa Yogananda (Winter 2002, SRF magazine)

*Chakras (source: www.yssofindia.org) :In Yoga, the seven occult centres of life and consciousness in the spine and brain, which enliven the physical and astral bodies of man. These centres are referred to as chakras (“wheels”) because the concentrated energy in each one is like a hub from which radiate rays of life-giving light and energy.

The seven centres are divinely planned exits or “trapdoors” through which the soul has descended into the body and through which it must reascend by a process of meditation. By seven successive steps, the soul escapes into Cosmic Consciousness. In its conscious upward passage through the seven opened or “awakened” cerebrospinal centres, the soul travels the highway to the Infinite, the true path by which the soul must retrace its course to reunite with God. All seven centres, however, are often referred to as lotuses, whose petals open, or turn upward, in spiritual awakening as the life and consciousness travel up the spine.

http://www.yoganandaji.org/board/showthread.php?t=5554

Story:The Wise Woman And The Traveler

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. 

The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. 

The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. 

But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. “I’ve been thinking,” he said, “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious: Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone.”

http://www.vsc.iitm.ac.in/Home/?page_id=768#Traveler

Story:The Sanayasin And The Boxer

A Boxing Champion was standing at the edge of a small pit with sewage water just peeping into it. A Sanyasin who was walking along the way all of a sudden just pushed this man forward. He fell into the pit. With rage he came out and thrashed the sanyasin. With all his body bleeding the Sanyasin just smiled and went away. 

The Boxer was confused. He followed the Sanyasin to his home. The deciples stood dumb found when they saw their master is this conditions and started treating him. They wanted to know what actually had happened. The Sanyasin narrated the episode and said ”My dear boys, That poor man did not know that there was a poisonous snake just near his leg ready to spit venom. He did not know that I wanted to Save him and not to subject him to any Suffering.” The Sanyasin was still smiling. 

But……..The Boxer Wept.

http://www.vsc.iitm.ac.in/Home/?page_id=768#Traveler

Technique:Unwinding the Mind - Mind/Mood Mastery

When: When you are ready to sleep.

Step 1:
Go backwards through the memories of the whole day - backwards. Don't start from the morning, start from where you are, just on the bed the last item, and then go back, step by step - right back to the first experience of morning. Go back and remember continuously that you are not getting involved.

For example if someone offended you, see yourself being insulted but you remain just an observer. Don't get involved, don't get angry; if you do then you are identified, you have missed the point of meditation.

The person is not insulting you but the form that was in the incident - but that form has gone now. You are just like a river flowing: The forms are flowing. In childhood you has one form, now you do not have that form - that form has gone. River- like you are continuously changing.

When you get back to the morning when you were just on your bed, to the first thing in the morning, you will again have the same fresh mind that you had in the morning. And then you can fall asleep like a very small child.

This is a deep catharsis. And if you can do it daily, you will feel a new health, a new freshness coming to you. And if we can teach children to do it daily, they will never be burdened by their past; they will always be here and now. There won't be any hang-ups; nothing will be hovering over them from the past.

http://www.baytalinsaan.com/ebooks/OSHO%20Meditation%20Inc..pdf

Technique:Pummel a Pillow - Working With Negative Emotions

When: Every Morning.

Duration: 20 minutes for two weeks.

Close the room, be alone, and allow anger to surface. Beat a pillow - bite it and throw it. If you are against someone in particular, write their name or put their picture on the pillow.

You may feel foolish, but anger is foolish; you cannot do anything about it. So let it be and enjoy it as an energy phenomenon. If you are not hurting anybody, there is nothing wrong in it.

If you do this as a meditation by and by you will see that the idea of hurting someone disappears. You will also be calmer because the energy that becomes anger was thrown out; the energy that becomes poison is thrown out of the system. "After you do this for the prescribed time you will find that whatever the situation, you are not provoked to anger.

http://www.baytalinsaan.com/ebooks/OSHO%20Meditation%20Inc..pdf

Technique:From Head to Heart to Hara

Man can function from three centers: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel.

If you function from the head you will go on spinning more and more thoughts. They are very insubstantial, dream-stuff - they promise much, they deliver nothing. The mind is a great cheat but it has tremendous capacities to delude, because it can project. It can give you great utopias, great desires, and it always goes on saving 'Tomorrow it is going to happen' ... and it never happens. Nothing ever happens in the head; the head is not the place for anything to happen.

The second center is the heart. It is the center for feeling, one feels through the heart. You are closer home - not home yet, but closer. When you feel, you are more substantial, you have more solidity; when you feel, there is a possibility that something may happen. There is no possibility with the head; there is a small possibility with the heart.

But the real thing is not even the heart. The real thing is deeper than the heart - which is the navel. It is the center of being.

Thinking, feeling, being - these are the three centers. But certainly feeling is closer to being than thinking, and feeling functions as a method. If you want to come down from the head you will have to pass through the heart - that is the crossroads from where the road separate. You cannot go to being directly; there is no way. You will have to pass through the heart. So the heart has to be used as a method.

Feel more and then you will think less. Don't fight with thinking, because fighting with thinking is again creating other thoughts of fighting. Then the mind is never defeated. If you win, it is the mind that has won; if you are defeated, you are defeated. Either way you are defeated - so never fight with thoughts, it is futile.

Rather than fighting with the thoughts, move your energy into feeling. Sing rather than think, love rather than philosophize, read poetry rather than prose. Dance, look at nature, and whatsoever you do, do it through the heart.

For example, if you touch somebody, touch through the heart, touch feelingly, and let your being vibrated. When you look at somebody, don't just look with stone-dead eyes. Pour out your energy through the eyes, and immediately you will see that something is happening in the heart. It is only a question of trying.

The heart is the neglected center: once you start paying attention to it, it starts functioning. When it starts functioning, the energy that was moving in the mind automatically starts moving through the heart. And the heart is closer to the energy center - the energy center is in the navel - so to pump it to the head is hard work, in fact. That's why all the education systems exist: they teach you how to pump the energy from the center to the head and how to by-pass the heart. So no school, no college, no university, teaches how to feel. They destroy feeling, because they know that if you feel you cannot think. If you feel too much then the energy will be stopped at the heart center, it will never go to the head. It can only go to the head when the heart center is completely denied. It has to go somewhere; it has to find an outlet. If the heart is not the outlet, it will go to the head.

So love is denied, feeling is denied, condemned it is almost a sin to feel. One has to be logical and rational, not emotional. If you are emotional, people will say you are childish. In a way they are literally true, because only a child feels. A grown-up person - educated, cultivated and conditioned - stops feeling. He becomes almost dry, dead wood; no juice flows any more. Hence there is so much misery. Misery is because of the head.

The head cannot celebrate, there is no celebration possible through the head. It can think about celebration - it can think about and about and about, but it cannot celebrate. Celebration happens through the heart.

First, you love - half the journey is complete. And as it is easy to move from the head to the heart, it is even easier to move from the heart to the navel.

In the navel you are simply a being, a pure being - no feeling, no thinking. You are not moving at all. That is the center of the cyclone. Everything else is moving: the head is moving, the heart is moving, and the body is moving. Everything is moving; everything is in a contrast flux. Only the center of your existence, the navel center, is unmoving; it is the hub of the wheel.

http://www.baytalinsaan.com/ebooks/OSHO%20Meditation%20Inc..pdf

Actualizing Joy - Accessing Positive Emotions

When: The whole day.

"Whenever you feel something is beautiful, blissful be aware of it. Usually we are so engaged with the negative we don't take much notice of the positive. So try to find the blissful and be filled with it. In that moment forget everything else and allow it to happen to your whole being.

"Do it for 24 hours as an experiment to give the feel. Then once you have the feel, once you feel that the positive is going to lead you to a new world because you become new, you will never want to leave it." 

http://www.baytalinsaan.com/ebooks/OSHO%20Meditation%20Inc..pdf