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Taittiriya Upanisad
Chapter Two
II.4
1. 'The one who knows the joy of brahman
From which speech, along with mind,
Turns back without winning it,
Is never afraid.'
It is the bodily self of the previous one.
Different from and inside the self that is made of mind is the self that is made of knowledge. This one is filled by it. It, too, is man-shaped. This, in its man-shape, matches the man-shape of that one. Faith is its head; law is its right wing; truth is its left wing; yoga is its self; MAHAH is its tail, its support. There is this verse about it:
II.5
1. 'Knowledge spreads out the sacrifice;
It spreads out actions, too.
All the gods worship knowledge
As brahman, the eldest.
'If one knows knowledge as brahman
And is not neglectful of it,
Abandoning evils in the body
One attains all desires.'
It is the bodily self of the previous one.
Different from and inside the self that is made of knowledge is the self that is made of joy. This one is filled by it. It, too, is man-shaped. This, in its man-shape, matches the man-shape of that one. Dearness is its head; happiness is its right wing; delight is its left wing; joy is its self;
brahman is its tail, its support. There is this verse about it:
II.6
1. 'One becomes not-being
If one knows brahman as not-being.
If one knows that brahman is,
Folk know one as being.'
It is the bodily self of the previous one.
Now for further questions:
If someone departs, not knowing that world, does he go to it?
If someone departs, knowing that world, does he win it?
He desired: 'Let me become many! Let me be born! He raised heat. When he had raised heat, he created all this, whatever there is, He entered into it. When he had entered into it, he became the present and the beyond: he became the explained and the unexplained, the based and unbased, the knowing and the unknowing, truth falsehood. As truth (satya), he became whatever there is: folk call it 'reality' (satya). There is this verse about it:
II.7
1. 'In the beginning all this was not-being.
From not-being, being was born.
It made itself a self:
So it is called, "Well done."’
What was well done is essence, for by getting an essence, one becomes joyful. Who would breathe, who would draw breath, if there were not this joy in space- It makes one joyful. When one finds the fearless, the support, in this invisible, selfless, unexplained, unresting, then one has reached the fearless. When one makes in it a cavity, a gap, one has fear. This is the fear of one who thinks himself a knower. There is this verse about it:
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