Aitareya Upanishad

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/02/2020. Post-4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Creation starts with the five elements, to which reference was made in our previous sessions. And when creation starts in this manner, division takes place. Creation is not merely a manifestation of externality, it is also a manifestation of division or partition of the otherwise inclusiveness, or its extension. We do not merely see things outside but, at the same time, we see many things. ##So, creation involves two aspects of perception: externality and multiplicity. The externality aspect is caused by space-time manifestation. The very meaning of space-time is externality; extension and duration are the characteristics of space and ...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04/02/2020. Post-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. However, we are eager to know how this world came to be. So, as a mother tells a story to a little child, the great metaphysical philosophers of the Upanishads, taking into consideration the weakness of human thought and its involvement in space and time absolutely, used the term – tentatively, for the time being, and not finally, of course – "the Atman alone was". Atma va idam eka evagra asit, nanyat kin cana misat (Ait. 1.1.1) is the first sentence of the Aitareya Upanishad. #There was nothing alive anywhere at that time, when the Atman alone was. #Outside the Atman, outside Brahman, outside the Absolute nothing can be, beca...