asato ma sad gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrtyor mamrtam gamaya
From delusion lead me to truth
From darkness lead me to light
From death lead me to immortality.
vidyam cavidyam ca yas
tad vedobhayam saha
avidyaya mrtyum tirtva
vidyayamrtam asnute
He who knows both knowledge and action, with action overcomes death and with knowledge reaches immortality.
yasmin dyauh prthivi cantariksam otam
manah saha pranais ca sarvaih tam
evaikam janatha atmanam anya vacah
vimuncatha amrtasya esah setuh
In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air, and in him rest the mind and all the powers of life. Know him as the ONE and leave aside all other words. He is the bridge of immortality.
indriyebhyah param mano
manasah sattvam uttamam
sattvad adhi mahan atma
mahato vyaktam uttamam
Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of all.
yada pancavatisthante
jnanani manasa saha
buddhis ca na vicestate
tam ahuh paramam gatim
When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme
- Came across this while listening to the Matrix Revolutions soundtrack, quite ironic that most of us dont know about this …. inspite of seeing matrix, we never accomplish the grt composer Don Davis to compose a theme on one of the most sacred Sanskirt upanishads/verses of all time …