The authority of Upanishads🔗

The above statement is one of the most important principles of Vedic Tradition. You might have heard of this in many books, but you should not mistake hearing this same principle in many books and hearing it from the Upanishads. Upanishads is the ultimate declaration. It is God speaking. Same word, when it is said by different people, it has different value.

The key to making change happen

Everyone is ultimately a mirror of you, and if you change, everyone will change. Don't think in a roundabout way: 'If everyone changes, I will also change.' Start from you. Everyone will also start changing. This becomes a beautiful virtuous circle in you. But if you are waiting for the change to happen from the other, others will not change; because of that, you will not change. It will become a vicious circle.

Two methods

The truth is "everything exists in you". There are two methods to realize this truth.

• 1. Witness the body and mind from outside

If you feel, 'Everything exists in me', fear and greed will start coming up. 'Oh, if everything exists in me, why will the tiger attack me? Why will the lion attack me?'

With this method, you will think, 'No, I will see my body and mind separately. Whatever happens, happens. It is just Existence. If this body needs to be alive, that will leave it alive. Otherwise it will kill.'

• 2. Everything has the same consciousness

'No, this body and that body, both have same Consciousness, and with this clarity I will decide what that body has to do and this body has to do, and make it function smoothly.'