Famous Debates in the Forest- (Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad) - Shree Purohit Swami and WB Yeats

Part I

Lead me from the unreal to the real!
Lead me from darkness to light!
Lead me from death to immortality!

In the beginning all things were Self, in the shape of personality. He looked around, saw nothing but Himself. The first thing he said was, ‘It is I.’ Hence ‘I’ became His name. Therefore even now if you ask a man who he is, he first says, ‘It is I’, and gives what other name he has. He is the eldest of all. Because he destroyed all evil, he is called the first Person. He who knows this, destroys all evil, takes the first rank.

He became afraid; loneliness creates fear. He thought: ‘As there is nothing but myself, why should I be afraid?’ Then his fear passed away; there was nothing to fear, fear comes when there is a second.

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