A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c9.s2.8

c9.s2.8

12. Time and oft we are told in the Upanishads, as in the passage above quoted from the Kaṭhopanishad, that the mystic is able to "see" God. Another passage from the same Upanishad tells us that "we ought to extract the Ātman courageously from our body, as one extracts a blade of grass from its sheath. When the Ātman is thus drawn out, let a man know that he is the lustrous Immortal Being—yea, the lustrous Immortal Being" (S. 18. a). The process of.