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date: 14 November 2024

The Upanishads Hindu sacred treatises written in Sanskrit 800–200 bc 

  1. From delusion lead me to Truth.
    From darkness lead me to Light.
    from death lead me to immortality.
     
    Brihadāranyaka Upanishad ch. 1, pt. 3, v. 28; see Kumar
  2. Shantih, shantih, shantih.
    Peace! Peace! Peace!
    Taittirīya Upanishad ch. 1, pt. 1, mantra; see Eliot
  3. Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind.
     
    Katha Upanishad ch. 2, v. 5; see Bible
  4. If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.
     
    Katha Upanishad ch. 2, v. 19; see Bhagavadgita, Emerson