TheBrihadaranyaka Upanishad is one of the principalUpanishads.
- Olivelle, Patrick (1998). The Early Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-512435-9.
- You can't see the seer who does the seeing;
- you can't hear the hearer who does the hearing;
- you can't think of the thinker who does the thinking;
- and you can't perceive the perceiver who does the perceiving.
- The self within all is this self of yours.
- All else besides this is grief!
- He sees, but he can't be seen;
- he hears, but he can't be heard;
- he thinks, but he can't be thought of;
- he perceives, but he can't be perceived.
- Besides him, there is no one who sees,
- no one who hears,
- no one who thinks,
- and no one who perceives.
- It is this self of yours who is the inner controller, the immortal.
- All besides this is grief.
- As a caterpillar, when it comes to the tip of a blade of grass,
- reaches out to a new foothold and draws itself onto it,
- so the self (ātman), after it has knocked down this body and rendered it unconscious,
- reaches out to a new foothold and draws itself onto it.
- Thunder, that divine voice, repeats the very same syllable:
- "Da! Da! Da!"—
- Demonstrate restraint (dāmyata)!
- Demonstrate bounty (datta)!
- Demonstrate compassion (dayadhvam)!
- One should observe the same triad—restraint, bounty, and compassion.
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