SAUBHAGYA LAKSHMI UPANISHAD: INNER SIGHT & SOUND OF SHUSHUMNA

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SAUBHAGYA LAKSHMI UPANISHAD: INNER SIGHT & SOUND OF SHUSHUMNA

The Saubhagya Lakshmi Upanishad

Translated by Dr. A. G. Krishna Warrier

Published by The Theosophical Publishing House, Chennai

http://www.celextel.org/108upanishads/saubhagyalakshmi.html

http://www.salvationscience.com/v224.htm

 

II-1: Then the gods said to Him: Expound the principle indicated by the fourth

(i.e. the final) Maya. `Be it so', said He:

Yoga through yoga must be known;

From yoga, yoga does increase;

Who through yoga is ever alert,

That Yogin long delights therein.

 

II-2: Awake from sleep, eating but little

When food consumed is digested aright,

At ease be seated in a spot secluded,

Untroubled by pests, ever free of desire –

Such is effort. Else restrain the breath

And stray not from the path of practice.

 

II-3: Filling the mouth with breath, and in Fire's seat

Drawing the down-breath, there arresting,

With fingers six of hands, from thumbs commencing

Stopping the ears, eyes and nostrils, too,

Yogins behold along this way

The Inner Light; their minds wrapt in the course

Of varied musings on the sacred Om (Rasa Tantra).

 

II-4: Ears, mouth, eyes and nostrils must, perforce,

Be by yoga stopped;

Clear and flawless then is heard the note

In CLEANSED SUSUMNA'S CHANNEL (Mixed Bioplasma,

Cleansed by mixing male and female).

 

II-5: In Anahata (the Inner Sound), then,

Resonant with strange notes, a sound is heard.

Sacred becomes the yogin's body; thus

With splendour filled and odour heavenly

He is ill no longer;

 

II-6: His heart is filled;

When heart-space resounds, a Yogin he

Becomes; snapping the second knot, flows

At once the breath to middle region.

 

II-7: Poised in lotus seat and others, too,

Firm established must the Yogin be.

The knot of Vishnu, then rent asunder

Delight wells up supreme.

 

II-8: Beyond Anahata, `the unstruck note',

Rises the drum's resounding sound;

With energy, piercing Rudra's knot

The maddala's note is heard.

 

II-9: The vital breath moves on to Largest Space,

The sure abode of all perfections; thence,

Ignoring mind's delight, the breath pervades

All yogic seats.

 

II-10: Yoga achieved, the all-pervading sound

Tinkles and hence is `the tinkler' styled.

Then, integrated, the mind is adored

Of sages like Sanaka and the rest.

 

II-11: Identifying the finite with the infinite,

The fragments with the Whole, one meditates

On the vast Source; thus is fulfilment found, and

One immortal becomes.

 

II-12: Through unity with Self, prevent contact

With others; so too, through Self's being

Oppose ought else's self; thus, becoming

Truth supreme, of all dualities free,

Supreme is one for ever.

 

II-13: Renounce the sense of I; yea,

Of this world, of appearance so unlike.

Never again is sorrow for the sage,

Rooted in Truth transcendent.

 

II-14: Like salt in water melted and fused,

So self and mind in oneness are blended.

That concentration is styled.

 

II-15: Breath dwindles and mind dissolves

And Bliss homogeneous is found.

This is concentration.

 

II-16: Fusion of lower and higher selves

Free from all imaginings,

Is styled concentration.

 

II-17: Rid of the light of wakefulness,

And of the mind that dreams;

Rid of sleep that knows none other,

Free of all that causes pain;

Total void without reflections –

Such is concentration.

 

II-18: Through ceaseless concentrated sight

When thought of body there is nought;

Then unstirring Self is realized –

This, concentration is called.

 

II-19: Whithersoever the mind wanders

There, just there, is the prime abode;

There, just there, is supreme Brahman

That abides alike everywhere.

 

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