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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD
He who knows at the same time both knowledge and non-knowledge, overcomes death through nonknowledge, and obtains immortality through knowledge (trans. Max Muller)
It has two statements:
- Through knowledge or Vidyaya you obtain immortality - Through Non-Knowledge or avidyaya you overcome death.
You cannot overcome death by yourself however learned you are. For that you need to go back to Isa who alone overcame death in his own body. But knowing him and submitting yourself to him you will be able to live a righteous life leading to immortality. In this sense you need both together to be redeemed. Just having one will only lead to death.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;
1Jn 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.
Col 1:21-23 And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven,
Col 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
MANTRA TWELVE
andham tamah pravisanti ye'sambhutimupasate | tato bhuya iva te tamo ya u sambhutyam ratah || 12 |
All who worship what is not god, enter into blind darkness: those who delight in the gods, enter, into greater darkness.
All who worship what is not the true cause, enter into blind darkness: those who delight in the true cause, enter, as it were, into greater darkness. (trans. Max Muller)
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