Heaven

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 20 Oct 2011 08:07 and updated at 20 Oct 2011 08:07

UPANISHAD NOUN

Katha	1.1.12. There is no fear in Heaven; nor art thou there; nor is there any fear from old age. Transcending both hunger and thirst and rising above grief, man rejoices in Heaven.
Katha	1.1.13. O Death, thou knowest the Agni that leads to Heaven. Instruct me, who am endowed with faith, about that Agni() by which those who dwell in Heaven attain immortality. This I choose for my second boon.
Katha	1.1.14. I will teach thee well; listen to me and understand, O Nachiketas, I know the Agni that leads to Heaven. Know that Agni which is the means for the attainment of Heaven and which is the support (of the universe) and located in the cavity.
Katha	1.1.18. He who, knowing the three (form of brick etc.,), piles up the Nachiketa Agni with this knowledge, throws off the chains of death even before (the body falls off), and rising over grief, rejoices in Heaven.
Katha	1.1.19. This is the Agni, O Nachiketas, which leads to Heaven and which thou hast chosen for the second boon. Of this Agni, people will speak as thine indeed. O Nachiketas, choose the third boon.
Katha	2.2.2. As mover Sun(), He dwells in Heaven; (as air), He pervades everything and dwells in inter space; as fire, on the Earth; as guest, in the houses; He dwells in men; dwells in the gods; dwells in truth and dwells in space. He is all that is born in water, all that is born on Earth, all that is born in sacrifices and all that is born on the mountains; He is unchanging and great.
Taittariya	1.3.1: May we both attain fame together. May spiritual pre eminence be vouchsafed to both of us together. Now therefore, we shall state the meditation on juxtaposition through five categories relating to the worlds, to the shining things, to knowledge, to progeny, and to the body. These, they call the great juxtapositions. Now then, as regards the meditation on the worlds. The Earth is the first letter. Heaven is the last letter. The Sky is the meeting place.
Taittariya	1.7.1: The Earth, Sky, Heaven, the primary quarters, and the intermediate quarters; fire, air, the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars; water, herbs, trees, Sky, and Virat these relate to natural factors. Then follow the individual ones: Prana, Vyana, Apana, Udana and Samana; the eye, the ear, the mind, speech and sense of touch; skin, flesh, muscles, bones and marrow. Having imagined these thus, the seer said, All this is constituted by five factors; one fills up the (outer) fivefold ones by the (individual) fivefold ones.
Taittariya	Suppose there is a young man in the prime of life, good, learned, most expeditious, most strongly built, and most energetic. Suppose there lies this Earth for him filled with wealth. This will be one unit of human joy. If this human joy be multiplied a hundred times, it is one joy of the man Gandharvas, and so also of a follower of the Vedas unaffected by desires. If this joy of the man Gandharvas be multiplied a hundred times, it is one joy of the divine Gandharvas, and so also of a follower of the Vedas unaffected by desires. If the joy of the divine Gandharvas be increased a hundredfold, it is one joy of the manes whose world is everlasting, and so also of a follower of the Vedas unaffected by desires. If the joy of the manes that dwell in the everlasting world be increased a hundredfold, it is one joy of those that are born as gods in Heaven, and so also of a follower of the Vedas untouched by desires. If the joy of those that are born as gods in Heaven be multiplied a hundredfold, it is one joy of the gods called the Karma Devas, who reach the gods through Vedic rites, and so also of a follower of the Vedas unaffected by desires. If the joy of the gods, called the Karma Devas, be multiplied a hundredfold, it is one joy of the gods, and so also of a follower of the Vedas untarnished by desires. If the joy of the gods be increased a hundred times, it is one joy of Indra, and so also of a follower of the Vedas unaffected by desires. If the joy of Indra be multiplied a
Aitareya	1.1.2: He created these world, viz. Ambhas, Marici, Mara, Apah. That which is beyond Heaven is Ambhas. Heaven is its support. The Sky is Marici. The Earth is Mara. The worlds that are below are the Apah.
Prashna	1.9: The year is verily the Lord of creatures. Of Him there are two Courses, the Southern and the Northern. As to that, those, who follow, in that way, the sacrifices and public good etc., that are products of action, conquer the very world of the Moon. It is they who come back. (Since this is so), hence these seers of Heaven, who are desirous of progeny, attain the Southern Course. That which is the Course of the Manes is verily food.
Prashna	2.13: All this (in this world), as also all that is in Heaven is under the control of Prana. Protect us just as a mother does her sons, and ordain for us splendour and intelligence.
Mundaka	1.2.6: Saying, Come, come uttering pleasing words such as, This is your well earned, virtuous path which leads to Heaven and offering him adoration, the scintillating oblations carry the sacrificer along the rays of the Sun.
Mundaka	1.2.9: Continuing diversely in the midst of ignorance, the unenlightened take airs by thinking, We have attained the goal. Since the men, engaged in karma, do not understand (the truth) under the influence of attachment, thereby they become afflicted with sorrow and are deprived of Heaven on the exhaustion of the results of karma.
Mundaka	1.2.10: The deluded fools, believing the rites inculcated by the Vedas and the Smritis to be the highest, do not understand the other thing (that leads to) liberation. They, having enjoyed (the fruits of actions) in the abode of pleasure on the heights of Heaven, enter this world or an inferior one.
Mundaka	2.1.4: The indwelling Self of all is surely He of whom the Heaven is the head, the Moon and Sun are the two eyes, the directions are the two ears, the revealed Vedas are the speech, air is the vital force, the whole Universe is the heart, and (It is He) from whose two feet emerged the Earth.
Mundaka	2.1.5: From Him emerges the fire (i.e. Heaven) of which the fuel is the Sun. From the Moon emerges cloud, and (from cloud) the herbs and corns on the Earth. A man sheds the semen into a Woman. From the Purusha have originated many creatures.
Mundaka	2.2.5: Know that Self alone that is one without a second, on which are strung Heaven, the Earth and the inter Space, the mind and the vital forces together with all the other organs; and give up all other talks. This is the bridge leading to immortality.

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