We are all system-makers, and systems we do make. Having made systems, we think those systems are final. No, they are not final. You have to go beyond every inner system that you create. You can say, “People are of 4 kinds,” and you can classify the entire 800 crore people of the world into 4. It’s clever, but not very useful when it comes to liberation.
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Acharya Prashant: “The 15 parts return into their foundations and all the gods pass into their proper godheads, works and the self of knowledge all become one in the supreme and the imperishable.”
So what is the context? What are we referring to here? We are referring here to the ultimate state possible. What is it that the mind finally wants? What is it that happens, rather stops happening, once you are out of illusion and bondage? The 15 parts pass into the whole. The shlok says, “kala, Panchadash kala,” 15 parts. Kala in Sanskrit means parts as well.
The Upanishads have to be read in light of their context. The student has come, and the student is in illusion but eager. He does not know what he wants to inquire about. So there is ignorance but with the spirit to inquire. There is darkness but with a movement towards illumination. And all that is being said by the seer is with a view to dispel false knowledge.
We have to remember that the Upanishads
