Kaivalya Upanishad

With Advaita Commentary

9,902 words

The Kaivalya Upanishad is an advanced philosophy and is in reply to the plea of Ashvalayana, already advanced in both years and practice. Ashvalayana askes for the full understanding and realisation of the truth of his non-dual identity with the Absolute Brahman or God....

8. He is God,  He is The Absolute,  He is Heaven,  He is Eternal,  the Supreme,  the Self-luminous,  He alone is All,  He is Breath,  He is Time and Fire,  He is the Moon. 

"He is God"

This singularity is seen as the one highest reality.  Knowing this One Alone the Sage sees this reality in all descriptions.

"He is The Absolute"

The term Absolute describes the highest possible Truth,  all possible truth,  all possible truth and untruth,  Absolutely all possible knowledge of all possibilities.

"He is Heaven"

The Absolute being all things and all places encompasses all ideas of the divine.

"He is Eternal"

The Truth is naturally eternal by definition.  The Absolute is Truth  (knowledge)  itself.

"the Supreme"

Being the primal singularity,  Existence itself there is not the duality of "another" to be more or less superior.

"the Self-luminous"

The Absolute is the source of all knowledge and the support of creation itself.  The sun itself with its luminance is merely a projection of the knowledge of the Absolute and Absolute knowledge lights itself and all things.

"He alone is All"

The Absolute is the Primal Singularity Alone.  Apart from that Absolute nothing else exists.

"He is Breath"

Breath Symbolises life in the scriptures and the Absolute is the life principle.

"He is Time and Fire"

Time Symbolises the created through the mortality of all things.  Fire Symbolises the act of Creation itself.  Both Creation and the Created are merely the projection of Absolute Knowledge.

"He is the Moon"

Moon Symbolises mind and the Absolute is the intelligence or thinking principle itself.

The Sage is no longer Sage. The surrender of self is complete,  the acceptance of the Absolute is unconditional.

The Absolute Alone is now known and accepted with complete certainty as the one reality.  However the Absolute is experienced,  whatever the shape form or medium,  be it pleasure or pain,  this Absolute Reality is no longer questioned or denied.

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