Even as a mirror stained by dust / Shines brilliantly when it has been cleansed, / So the embodied one, on seeing the nature of the Self, / Becomes unitary, his end attained, from sorrow freed.
Svetasvatara Upanishad
From Sorrow Freed
Topic: Prayer, Meditation, & Contemplation
“Even as a mirror stained by dust / Shines brilliantly when it has been cleansed, / So the embodied one, on seeing the nature of the Self, / Becomes unitary, his end attained, from sorrow freed.”
Hinduism
Svetasvatara Upanishad
Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture - a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 519 [Svetasvatara Upanishad 2.14].
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Svetasvatara Upanishad 2.14
Swami Prabhavananda
Through the practice of these disciplines, constant recollectedness of God awakens in the devotee’s heart. The thought of his beloved Lord is continually in his consciousness. All cravings leave him. Only one desire remains: to love God and live in complete self-surrender to his will. This pure and selfless devotion is followed by absorption in God, and ultimate union with him.
–Swami Prabhavananda [Sermon on the Mount] p. 80.