A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c9.s5.1.3

c9.s5.1.3

To return to our argument, however, fifthly, we are told in the Taittirīya Upanishad that the direct result of the enjoyment of divine bliss is that the Mystic is divested once for all of all feeling of fear. The one kind of emotion kills the other, and the feeling of bliss kills once for all the emotion of fear. Whom and what may such a perfected Mystic fear, when he finds infinite joy in all directions and at all times ? “ He becomes fearless,” says the Taittirīya Upanishad, “ because he has obtained a lodgment in that invisible, incorporate, indefinable, fearless, supportless support of all ” (S. 24. e). Finally, we are told in the Chhāndogya Upanishad that “ if such a Mystic should ever want to have any end fulfilled at all, he should wait upon the Ātman, and pray to him, without the slightest touch of egoism, for the fulfilment of his desire : immediately is the end fulfilled for him for which he had prayed to God" (S. 25. a). "The Ātman," says the Chhāndogya Upanishad, "is sinless, without age, without death, without fear, without any hunger or thirst, and has all his desires or ends fulfilled. This Ātman should be sought after; this Ātman should be known. He who realises the Ātman in this way after having sought after him, for him all the worlds are gained, and all desires fulfilled" (S. 25. b).