surya upanishad

 These eyes which can look only outwards, which can only look into the without, are blind unless they also become capable of seeing within. If you cannot see yourself you are blind, and one who cannot see himself, what else can he see? And whatsoever he sees, whatsoever his knowledge, it remains based on a deep blindness.

Unless you become self-seeing, unless you turn within, unless you can have a look at the reality that you are, whatsoever you encounter in the world is going to be just the appearance.

The same will be the proportion: the more you penetrate within the more you can penetrate without, because reality is one.

 If you are not acquainted with yourself, all your acquaintance, all your knowledge is just false. Without self-knowledge there is no possibility of any knowledge. You can go on knowing and knowing; you can go on collecting more and more information, but that information will remain information – dead, borrowed. It will never become a knowing eye.

How to attain those eyes which can penetrate the illusory and can encounter the real? This is going to be the base of this whole Upanishad. In the old days it was called chakshusmati vidya, the wisdom through which eyes are attained. But the first thing to be constantly remembered is that as we are, we are blind; as we are, we are dead; as we are, we are illusory, the stuff dreams are made of.

Why cannot our eyes see the real? They are so much filled with dreams, so much filled with thoughts,
that whatsoever you see, you are not seeing that which is; you project your ideas, your thoughts,
your dreams upon it. The whole world becomes just a projection screen, and you go on projecting
things. Whatsoever you see outside, you have put it there. You live in a man-created world, and
everyone lives in his own world. That world consists of his own projections.
Unless your eyes are completely vacant, unless there is no content within your eyes, no thoughts, no
clouds; unless you become mirrorlike, pure, innocent, contentless, you cannot encounter the real.
The real can be seen only through naked, empty eyes; it cannot be seen through filled eyes

We conceive of things through our mind; that mind goes on interpreting. But we can understand
about beauty and ugliness – what about other interpretations? If man disappears there will be no
good and evil in the world, nothing will be moral and nothing will be immoral. All our morality, all our
judgment is through conceptions

 When a man becomes enlightened the man has disappeared
from him with all the interpretations, judgments. He has become pure, as if he is no more. The mind
has been dropped. He is conscious, fully conscious, but with no contents to project. He looks at the
world as it is, without any interpretation. And for the first time he comes to know reality.

nothing is bad and nothing is good. There is no evil and no God
– existence is one. And if you can accept this existence without any interpretation, for the first time
you are creating a way which can lead to the truth.

You cannot carry your mind to the truth. If you carry your mind, whatsoever you come to know will
not be the truth. You may encounter the truth but you will not know it, because the moment you see
something you have interpreted. You pass through a garden and you see roseflowers. You have not
seen them and immediately the mind says, ”Beautiful.”the flowers have disappeared, your concept
has come in. You have projected, you have judged. Jesus says, ”Judge ye not.” Don’t judge.



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If judgment disappears, you have become innocent. If you don’t divide things into good and bad,
ugly and beautiful, acceptable and nonacceptable; if you don’t divide things, if you look at reality
without any division, your eyes will come into existente for the first time. This is chakshusmati vidya,
the signs of gaining eyes.
If you divide you will remain blind, if you judge you will remain blind, if you say this is bad and this is
good, you will persist in your blindness... because existence knows nothing. There is nothing good
and nothing bad – existence accepts everything.

 And when you also accept everything you have
become existence-like. You have become one with it.
So remember, morality is not religion. Rather, on the contrary, morality is one of the hindrances in
gaining religion, just like immorality. Morality, immorality – both are hindrances. When you transcend
both you have transcended the mind, the dual, the dualistic attitude.
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Shiva told him is to be remembered. He said, ”There can be only one wish, one desire
which is worthwhile. Ask for desirelessness, otherwise nothing is worthwhile. Whatsoever you ask,
the next moment you will want something else, even just the opposite of the first.”
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 this sage, Sankriti, looked at the sun, the god, the god of light,
the very look, the way he looked, was his worship. The way he was, was his prayer. Those pure
eyes, with no dreams, no clouds, no tears, no demands, not asking anything; just simple, innocent,
childlike, just looking at the god – that was the worship.
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O LORD, FROM UNTRUTH LEAD ME TO TRUTH; FROM DARKNESS LEAD ME TO LIGHT; AND
FROM DEATH LEAD ME TO THE ETERNAL.

YOU ARE HOLY;  WITHOUT PARALLEL.YOU HOLD ALL
MANIFESTATIONS, ARE ADORNED WITH A GARLAND OF CONSTELLATIONS. YOU ARE
ALL FIRE, LUMINOUS LIKE GOLD, EFFULGENT AND HOT. WITH A THOUSAND RAYS AND
PRESENTI YOURSELF IN A HUNDRED WAYS, YOU MAKE YOURSELF MANIFEST TO ALL
CREATURES. SALUTATION TO YOU, THE SON OF ADITI, WHO IS THE LIGHT IN OUR
EYES. WE DEDICATE ALL THAT WE HAVE TO YOU WHO RULES THE UNIVERSE.
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The world that we create around us is created through our eye diseases. We go on looking wrongly,
we go on dividing. The universe is one, but our eyes go on dividing. That division is the disease.
The existence is just as it is. We go on condemning or appreciating, that is the eye disease. We go
on judging. Facts are just facts, there is no way to judge.


 the mind of a sage – not choosing, not asking, not saying this should be and this should
not be. Whatsoever happens, he accepts it in its totality. This acceptance gives him freedom, this
acceptance gives him the capacity to see. These are eye diseases: shoulds, should nots, divisions,
judgments, condemnations, appreciations.

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WHO RECITES THIS VIDYA EVERY DAY....
Recites means lives. Through his whole being the recitation continues, through his whole being he
is just a looker, not a judger. His eyes are just working like a mirror, whatsoever comes before them
is mirrored. The moment it passes the mirror is again vacant. It does not cling; it does not think
about the past, it does not look into the future.
The mirror remains in the present – whatsoever passes is mirrored. When it has gone the mirror
is vacant again, nothing is left. You cannot destroy its mirrorlike innocence. This is the recitation.
The whole day, moment to moment, one who lives this vidya, this knowledge, this seeing, will never
suffer from eye diseases.

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