Lessons on the Upanishads :1-5. Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= Tuesday, 24 Oct 2023. 05:30. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Upanishads 5. Post-5. ========================================================================= The recognition of a spiritual background behind the transitory phenomenauerading in us, which is another way of saying that the Unchanging is present in us. The Infinite is summoning every finite individual. The Unchanging is calling us moment to moment: “Don't sleep, get up!” One of the passages of the Katha Upanishad is uttisthata jagrata prapya varan nibodhata (Katha 1.3.14): “Wake up. Sleeping mankind, stand up!” Are we slumbering? Are we seeing only what we are able to cognise through the sense organs or are we also aware of something that is deeply rooted in our own self? Prapya varan: “Go to the Masters.” Go to the wise ones in this world —masters and teachers and guiding lights of mankind—and nibodhata: “know the secret”. The Bhagavadgita als of l