Page 2 - Isha Upanishad - Translation by Sri Aurobindo

Salutation to the SO AHAM

The Upanishad sets forth by pronouncing as the indispensable basis

of its revelations the universal nature of God. This universal nature of

Brahman the Eternal is the beginning and end of the Vedanta and if it

is not accepted, nothing the Vedanta says can have any value, as all

its propositions either proceed from it or at least presuppose it; . . .

with this truth in your hand as a lamp to shed light on all the

obscurest sayings of the Scriptures, you soon come to realise that the

Upanishads are a grand harmonious and perfectly luminous whole,

expressing in its various aspects the single and universal Truth; for

under the myriad contradictions of phenomena (prapancha) there is

one Truth and one only.

(CWSA, 17: 101)