Page 9 - Isha Upanishad - Translation by Sri Aurobindo

The pairs of opposites successively taken up by

the Upanishad and resolved are, in the order of

their succession:

1) The Conscious Lord and phenomenal Nature

2) Renunciation and Enjoyment

3) Action in Nature and Freedom in the Soul

4) The One stable Brahman and the multiple Movement

5) Being and Becoming

6) The Active Lord and the indifferent Akshara Brahman

7) Vidya and Avidya

8) Birth and Non-Birth

9) Works and Knowledge (CWSA, 17: 84)