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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD
that the world will realise that it was you who sent me, and that I have loved them as much as you loved me. – John 17:21-23
MANTRA SEVEN
yasminsarvani bhutanyatmaivabhudvijanatah tatra ko mohah kah soka ekatvamanupasyatah 117 11
One who has known that the spirit of God is present in everything, he will realize that sorrow and pain are transient.
"One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?" (trans. Prabhupada)
It is the nature of the present world of this age to have pain and sorrow. Since God is the creator and upholder of this world, the perceiver should know that it is only transient and is here for a purpose.
MANTRA EIGHT
sa paryagacchukramakayamavranamasnaviram suddhamapapaviddham kavirmanisi paribhuh svayambhuryathatathyato'rthan vyadadhacchasvatibhyah samabhyah || 8 ||
It is He who pervades all-He, who is bright and bodiless, without sinews, pure and untouched by evil; who is omniscient, transcendent and uncreated, self existent, He has duly allotted respective purposes from ages to ages.
"Far-sighted, wise, encompassing, he self-existent hath prescribed aims, as propriety demands, unto the everlasting Years" (trans. Griffith)
He (the Self) encircled all, bright, incorporeal, scatheless, without muscles, pure, untouched by evil; a seer, wise, omnipresent, self-existent, he disposed all things rightly for eternal years. (trans, Max Muller)
"Such a person must factually know [paryagat] the greatest of all, the Personality of Godhead (shukram], who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been fulfilling everyone's desire since time immemorial." (trans. Prabhupada)
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