The Philosophy of the Upanishads c12.s2.t3.5

c12.s2.t3.5

Emancipation therefore (which we must not judge by our one-sided Western ideas which have been shaped from historical and therefore narrow conditions) is not properly a new beginning, a *καινὴ κτίσις*, but only the perception of that which has existed from eternity, but has hitherto been concealed from us :—