I am the object of all knowledge, father of the world, its mother, source of all things, of impure and pure, of holiness and horror. I am the goal, the root, the universe, home and refuge, dearest friend, creation and annihilation, everlasting seed and treasure. I am the radiance of the sun, I open or withhold the rainclouds, I am immortality and death, am being and non-being. I am the Self, Arjuna, seated in the heart of every creature. I am the origin, the middle, and the end that all must come to. I am the birth of this cosmos: its dissolution also. I am he who causes: No other beside me. Upon me, these worlds are held like pearls strung on a thread. I am the essence of the waters, the shining of the sun and the moon: OM in all the Vedas, the word that is God. It is I who resound in the ether and am potent in man. I am the sacred smell of the earth, the light of the fire, Life of all lives, austerity of ascetics.
(Bhagavad Gita VII)


For, as the vast air, wandering world-wide, remains within the ether always, so these, my wandering creatures are always within me. These, when the round of ages is accomplished, I gather back to the seed of their becoming. These I send forth again at the hour of creation.
(Bhagavad Gita IX)


Now the light which shines beyond the heavens,
on to the back of all things, on to the back of every single thing,
in the highest and most exalted worlds,
that is indeed the same as the light within man.
(Chandogya Upanishad)


When goodness grows weak,
When evil increases,
I make myself a body.
In every age I come back
To deliver the holy,
To destroy the sin of the sinner,
To establish righteousness.
(Bhagavad Gita 4)


The ignorant work for the fruit of their actions: The wise mst work also without desire… Let them show by example how work is holy when the heart of the worker is fixed on the Highest.
(Bhagavad Gita,III)

Meditation
Om, shanti shanti shanti
Om, peace, peace
(Hindu mantra)


Who sees the many and not the ONE, wanders on from death to death.
Even by the mind this truth is to be learned: there are not many but
only ONE.
Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from death to death…
Katha Upanishad


Through constant effort over many lifetimes, a person becomes purified of all selfish desires and attains the supreme goal of life.
(Bhagavad Gita 6:45)

Awake, arise! Strive for the Highest, and be in the Light! Sages say the path is narrow and difficult to tread, narrow as the edge of a razor.
The Atman is beyond sound and form, without touch and taste and perfume. It is eternal, unchangeable, without beginning or end: indeed above reasoning. When consciousness of the Atman manifests itself, man becomes free from the jaws of death.
(Katha Upanishad)


Wornout garments are shed by the body:
Worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller within the body.
New bodies are donned by the dweller, like garments.
(Bhagavad Gita)


Not wounded by weapons, not burned by fire,
Not dried by the wind, not wetted by water.
Such is the Atman.
(Bhagavad Gita)