chapter 2 Apauruṣeya, the Authorless Book of Pure Truth🔗

Upaniṣads, just by this one word-Apauruṣeya, meaning authorless, Upaniṣads is introduced to all of you.

Before explaining a book, we have to explain what it stands for and who made it stand for that. Before explaining who made it stand for that, we have to explain who wrote it.

Whenever a book is written, the truth and the personality who presents the truth, both are expressed in that book. All books are biographies of the author, because there is no book that does not have the smell, the presence of the author. The more the personal involvement, the more it becomes fiction. In any book, the more the author is present, the less the truth is presented; more his personal touch, less the reality.

History should be kept out of the minds with vested interests. Any psychological fear or greed makes the history written by the person as for-profit industry. Unfortunately, society does not recognize the psychological fears, greeds and vested interests. When somebody is physically greedy and makes billions of dollars, you recognize it. But, the damage caused to the human consciousness by the psychologically greedy people is not at all recognized by the society.

The basic things of life should be kept out of the madness of human mind. In any field, the human mind intervenes, the fear and greed of the individual is allowed to make the decision, the truth is either diluted or killed. Fear is neither socially nor legally accepted madness of humanity.

But, unfortunately, greed has become legalized madness of the humanity. Humanity should be kept out of any for-profit vested interests, especially the ideological fears and greeds. Any society that wants to live in peace and create heaven, the Satya Loka (abode of truth) of the Upaniṣadic periods, that society should understand—the way you perceive you, the way you are taught about you is from history; and the people who write your history should be out of psychological fear and greed, and vested interests. If you read the history written by the people with vested interests, and based on those informations, if you create an idea about you, you will be suffering with the same problems that the historian was suffering with. How careful you are when you eat your food, because it is going to be part of your life, that careful you should be when you eat the ideas; it means reading books, receiving informations. Your education should be completely out of non-profit, for-profit; it should be completely free. Knowledge is free. That is why the Upaniṣads are now available to you freely.

The one and only way to purify humanity and revive the Upaniṣadic civilization is—the history should be written by the people who have the pure vision. Vision influenced by people with fear and greed distorts even while they are seeing what they are seeing. And, if they pen that down and you start imbibing that in your life, you will be imbibing the same fear and greed patterns in your life. Fear and greed in food and medicine makes your body impure. Fear and greed in the history and concepts you get, makes your psychology impure. Fear and greed in religious and spiritual ideas, makes your Consciousness bound. Religion and spirituality should be completely kept out of any physical, material, psychological vested interests.

No Upaniṣadic Ṛṣi was a servant or boss of somebody; they did not have a vested interest or an ideology to maintain or an organization to be kept alive. That kept the Upaniṣadic tradition pure without any psychological or materialistic vested interests of fear and greed. If the individual influence gets into anything, its purity is reduced. The more the individual, the less it is truthful and useful to humanity. As on now, the humanity is so person-based, so individualistic, power centric.

Upaniṣads, by the very introduction, the first line, they are mystical. Upaniṣads, just by this one word—Apauruṣeya, meaning authorless, Upaniṣads is introduced to all of you. Why authorless? Because it is not touched by any vested interests. The vested interests have different levels: Material level—money. Then, the psychological level—trying to influence people as you want, to become a leader. Next, the collective psychological level—trying to keep certain ideology alive for generations and trying to influence humanity through some ideology, and keeping humanity under control and bound through certain ideology. Upaniṣads are free from all these levels of corruptions.

Corruption-free book and knowledge source in the whole Universe is Upaniṣads. No individual is involved, glorified nor do their vested interest exists.

|| apauruṣeya aprameya acintya anirvacaniya ||

Authorless. Immeasurable. Incomprehensible. Inexpressible.

Apauruṣeya. Authorless. The names of the Ṛṣis, who penned it down did not get recorded because there is no influence of the Upaniṣadic Ṛṣis on the thoughts, on the great truths revealed in the Upaniṣad book. That is why it is apauruṣeya. The first verse of the Brahmasūtras starts with:

athāto brahma jijñāsā || 1.1.1 ||

Now let us inquire into the reality. It means, no vested interests, no theories, not even a presumption of ‘In God We Trust.’ After the study of the Brahmasūtra, the disciple can choose to be an atheist or theist. Such vast possibility. Knowledge should be from the Source of possibility and from the Source of freedom. What a pure inner-space of the Upaniṣadic Ṛṣis, without any vested interests even towards some ideologies, some ideas! That is why they were so alive even to update and reinvent themselves.

These spiritual truths are not influenced by any vested interests or fear and greed of those who penned it down. What purity of an ideology is maintained when the Truths are presented! The Upaniṣads are from the ultimate civilized and most sophisticated brains. If our civilization reaches the maturity in future, anywhere in few thousand years, the religion, the history, and the information broadcasting, all the three will become purely non-profit and uninfluenced by the individual’s fear and greed, and ideologies. When the organizational priorities come into consideration and existence, the truths are compromised.

Retaining the purity of those teachings without the interference of our fear and greed, is the only way we can surrender our gratitude, love, respects to those great souls—Ṛṣis of the Upaniṣads, and their purity, sacrifice, and dedication. The Ṛṣis retained the purity of the Truth because that is the best way to exist, the best way to breathe, the best way to eat, to clothe, to entertain, to enjoy the pleasures of life, the best way to think, to feel; the best way to exist is—to be in the Source of Pure Truth.

In the Upaniṣadic tradition, the complete purity of religious and spiritual principles are maintained. Feel blessed that the Vedic tradition has kept the highest purity, without any material or psychological vested interests into the spiritual principles.

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