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The first verse of the Ishavaasya Upanishad is praised by Mahatma Gandhi as being the most important in all the Upanishads.
"If all the Upanishads and all the other Scriptures happened all of a sudden to be reduced to ashes, and if only the first verse in the Ishopanishad were left in the memory of the Hindu Dharmis, Sanatan Dharma would live forever" -- Mahatma Gandhi
ॐ ईशा वास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।
तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ।। १ ।।
The Lord is enshrined in the hearts of all.
The Lord is the supreme Reality.
Rejoice in him through renunciation.
Covet not the wealth/possessions of others.
îsHâ vâsyamidaM sarvaM yat kiñca jagatyâM jagat,
tena tyaktena bhuñjîthâ mâ gRidhaH kasya sviddhanam. 1.
This Upanishad starts with the phrase: ‘Ishavaasyam idam sarvam’. Hence it is also known as *Ishavaasya Upanishad*. It is called the ‘*Ishopanishad*’. This forms the fortieth chapter in the vajaneya samhita of *Sukla-Yajur Veda*. Because of this reason, it is also called as the ‘*Sukla Yajur vediya samhita Upanishad*’ and as the ‘*vajasaneyi samhita Upanishad'
The rishi or the sage of this Upanishad is ‘*Datyang aadarvanar*’. His son, who is leading a normal worldly life (and not a monastic one) approaches the sage for advices on knowledge of the self. The sage, observing that his son has complete control over all the desires and that he is following all the duties and dharmas cast on him by the religious doctrines and also that he is a true aspirant of liberation and dedicated to the cause by complete surrender, teaches his son about the knowledge of the Self.
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Rajan Chalil Veettil
Ishavaasyamidam Sarvam-
From this I realise that actually what is god. It simultaneously exists within and out side me . In that way it is simultaneously single and infinite, far and near, Each and every cell of mine is a universe, and the energy within me is none but the cosmic energy , The mind of mine is nothing but the cosmic mind and in that way I am the God ahambrahmasmi
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Renganathan Ganesa Iyer
Very useful note. I wish more and more people read this and digest to live accordingly.
Sonu Kuwar
It's beyond comment
Saraswati Ramachandran
Very inspiring post about the teachings of Upanishad.
Subhash Tewari
No doubt He is the supreme reality.The cosmic readiation rather say bounty is continuously benefitting everything.Streamlined disciplined we avail it best.Everything in the universe happens because He is there,and not because He does it.The nutshell co… 
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Appu Narayanan Kutty
it is correctly said. and the explanation of the first verse is apt and enlightening. .no doubt easavasya upanishad is important among dasopsnishads. pranam to rishivaryas who gave this vedanta to us many thousand years back.
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Ramashish Pandey
I like Upanishad and like this post.
Dipakbhai Vyas
I love Ishopanishad.
Anish Kumar
Ancient knowledge and the modern science complements each other... Both help us to deepen our root and broaden our vision...
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Om namah Sivaaya siddham namaha |
Dear Anish Kumar, If you don't mind, a small correction. NOT ancient knowledge BUT ancient science.
Better to be calm if you do not read Upanishaths. As a boy in the Bhaarath, first read Upanishaths. If you don't know Samskrutham, please learn. I learned at the age of 48 years.
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GAAYA THRI KUMDALINI NAADA SIDDHA YOGI
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Isha Upanishad: That is full, this is full | Tom Das

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Isha Upanishad: That is full, this is full
APRIL 18, 2015 ~ TOM DAS
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“That is full, this is full,
From that fullness comes this fullness,
If you take away this fullness from that fullness,
Only fullness remains”
Invocatory verse of Isha Upanishad
Gandhi famously declared the Isha Upanishad to be the summit of human wisdom. He said if all the scriptures in the world were lost, as long as the first verse of the Isha Upanishad remained then Hinduism would last forever.

To the rational mind devoid of spiritual experience this verse makes little sense – how can you take fullness from fullness, and for fullness to still remain? However to the one whose heart has glimpsed the Lord, the poetry reverberates and delights.

That is full, this is full…I can imagine the anonymous rishi (seer or wise person) who composed the verse pointing  away from him when saying ‘that’ and pointing near him or even perhaps towards himself when saying ‘this’. That is full, this is full…We are surrounded by the infinite. That is the infinite, I am also the infinite. The infinite is everywhere, nothing is not it. Nothing is limited, everything is free and unbound, one.

In the invocation above, the sanskrit word that has been translated as ‘full’ ispurna. Purna can also be translated as complete, whole, infinite, limitless or perfect. Taking this into account, what does it mean? It means that we are already whole and complete. You are whole and complete, I am whole and complete – already. You do not have to make yourself whole. Sadhana (spiritual practice) will not make you complete – it cannot. Sadhana can only reveal the completeness that is already here.

The problem for a spiritual seeker is not that they are un-enlightened or deficient in any way. It is that they do not realise they are already enlightened and whole.
This lack of realisation of one’s true nature is called ignorance, meaning that you do not see what is already the case, you do not know your true identity as That which is already full.

This ignorance or misunderstanding of reality has been demonstrated using many metaphors in the classic texts of vedanta, such as the woman who thinks she has lost her necklace only for a look in the mirror to reveal it is on her neck. The snake on the dimly lit ground that scares the man was actually a rope all along; when revealed by the light the rope is seen and the man’s fear is abated. Or when ten men have crossed a river the group leader becomes worried when he can only count nine men on the other side. A passer-by reassures the leader: he has merely forgotten to count himself.

In all these examples, all was well the entire time, only the protagonist made a mistake. The protagonist did not need to make things well, they only needed to see things clearly. The mirror, the light and the passerby in the analogies above represent the scripture or guru that reveals the mistake and thus ends suffering.

The solution to suffering and lack is therefore not one of self-improvement in which you build your small-shallow self up into some perfect super-duper being: you are already the perfect super-duper being. In fact we are all that One Being. We just don’t see it. All we have to do is look deeply at reality as it is now and investigate it and our assumptions about it. Then we can see for ourselves that the sense of lack is based on illusion and that we are already free.

As Jesus said, “seek and ye shall find” and “the truth shall set you free”.

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