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].