Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within.. underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, “the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad . Huston Smith
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The Upanishad, or Vedas, is a collection of sacred Hindu texts. It is considered one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism, the others being the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata and the Puranas. The Upanishads teach that Brahman (the Absolute) is the only Reality; that all other beings are "maya" (illusion); that they are transient; and that liberation comes through yoga (union with Brahman).

Source: The Worlds Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

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