Just as rivers flowing onward lose their name and form as they merge into the ocean, so the knower—freed from name and form—rises to the divine Purusha who is beyond the beyond.
Browse topics
Source
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Chapter
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Verse / page
- MuU.3.2.8
- Topics
- LiberationOnenessGod
Same theme, different voices
The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
So long as this soul does not know its real destination while dwelling in the body, it is not going to be liberated from the cycle of births and deaths. There is only one way to get rid of this wandering and that is to realise God while the human body is still there.