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Whence words turn back, together with the mind, unable to reach it—one who knows that bliss of Brahman fears nothing at all. This is the embodied self of the former one. Different from and within this self made of mind is another self made of understanding (vijnana). By that this is filled. This too has the shape of a person; according to that one's human shape, this has human shape. Its head is faith; the right its right side; the true its left side; yoga the trunk; the great (mahah) the tail, the foundation. On this too there is this verse:
यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते । अप्राप्य मनसा सह । आनन्दं ब्रह्मणो विद्वान् । न बिभेति कदाचनेति । तस्यैष एव शारीर आत्मा । यः पूर्वस्य । तस्माद्वा एतस्मान्मनोमयात् । अन्योऽन्तर आत्मा विज्ञानमयः । तेनैष पूर्णः । स वा एष पुरुषविध एव । तस्य पुरुषविधताम् । अन्वयं पुरुषविधः । तस्य श्रद्धैव शिरः । ऋतं दक्षिणः पक्षः । सत्यमुत्तरः पक्षः । योग आत्मा । महः पुच्छं प्रतिष्ठा । तदप्येष श्लोको भवति ॥ १॥
HinduScriptureGod RealisationBlissSanskrit
Taittiriya Upanishad 2.4Sanskrit original; contemporary rendering by Wisdom Booth

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Tradition
Hindu
Source text
Taittiriya Upanishad
Chapter
Taittiriya Upanishad
Verse / page
TU.2.4
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God-RealisationBlissFear

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