Sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - 8. Swami Krishnananda.

=======================================================

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, May 08, 2020.

Post-8.

-----------------------------------------------------------

1.

#Such determination, if there is in any one of us, the Truth reveals itself automatically. The Truth is seeking us much more than we seek it. As it is wider than our concept of itself, it is a greater force, it calls you. God calls you with greater severity of intensity than we are calling Him.
----------------------------------------------------------

2.

#"Maitreyi, I have told you everything, I am now departing from this place," Yajnavalkya said.

#All this teaching to his consort Maitreyi ended with this renunciation. This renunciation is of a different kind. It is called Vidvat Sannyasa. It is not the Sannyasa that people take ordinarily for the sake of knowing something.

##Here, it renounces having already known everything. It is called Vidvat Sannyasa and not Vividisha Sannyasa. It is not Karma Sannyasa. What happened to Yajnavalkya afterwards, no one knows.

###The whole story ends here with this stunning, shaking, earth-shaking statement. We cannot say anything more than this. Nowhere will you find statement or speaking of this kind.
--------------------------------------------------------------
3.

#"The Pranas depart", we generally say. "Oh, the Prana has departed."

#But in the case of this person who is totally desireless, who desires only the Self that is everywhere, who is 100% satisfied, such a person's Prana will not depart.

#Where will it go, because his Self is everywhere?

##And therefore the question of departing does not arise.

##There is no particular part of the world where the Prana will go. It will melt down here.

###A drop of water floating on the surface of the ocean wants to enter the ocean. What distance does it have to travel?

###It has to sink down there itself. So, it has not to depart anywhere, crawling distances; it melts down, the bubble bursts into the ocean.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Remarkable! Brilliant!! Upanishads are National Treasure to serve Mankind!!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To be continued ...

==========================================================