A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c4.s3.1.4

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by the command of that Brahman, some rivers flow out to the east from the White Mountains, and others to the west or some other quarter" (S. 12. b.). As an example of sublimity in the subjective sphere, we may quote the passage from the Chhāndogya in which we are told that the city within is exactly like the city without, that the heart is the citadel of Ātman as the universe itself is, that just as in the outer world there is that unending space which contains within it the heaven and the earth, the fire and the wind, the sun and the moon, the lightning and the stars, similarly, even here, within this little citadel, are they to be equally found (S. 12. c.). Finally, as an example of sublimity in the transcendental sphere, we have the passage from the Chhāndogya which tells us that "Infinity alone is bliss..... When one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, that is the Infinite......The Infinite is above, below, behind, before, to the right and to the left......I am above, I am below, I am behind, I am before, I am to the right and to the left...... The Self is above, the Self is below, the Self is behind, the Self is before, the Self is to the right and to the left. He who knows this truly attains Swarājya" (S. 12. d.).