28 January 2012

Mundakopanishad

The great reality can not be realized by lack of spiritual strength,
by indifference, by austerities unaccompanied with renunciation.

The self of that knower who applies himself to the reality
with the means described enters the Ultimate Reality.

Sages having found It stand ever content in 
spiritual consciousness, and remain centered in the Reality,

being free from all attachment, and always at peace within and without.
They find the unconditioned and the all-pervading,

and realizing It within, become one with the All.
With faith firmly fixed in the teaching of the saints,

with the mind entirely purified through renunciation and spiritual
consciousness, yogis, one with the immortal,

become one with the Ultimate Reality at the moment of death.