BRHAD-ARANYAKA UPANISAD                                   BRAD-T1.TXT
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       In the beginning, this world was Soul alone.

       Looking around, he saw nothing else than himself. He said first "I
       Am." Thence arose I. Since before all this world he burned up all
       evils, therefore he Is. He who knows this, verily, burns up him who
       desires to be ahead of Him.

       He was afraid, as one who is alone is afraid. This one then thought
       to himself: "Since there is nothing but mySelf, of what am I
       afraid?" Thereupon, verily, His fear departed. Assuredly it is from
       other that fear arises.

       Verily, He had no delight. Therefore, one alone has no delight. He
       desired other. He was indeed of the form of man and woman closely
       embraced. He caused that self to separate into two; therefrom arose
       a man and woman. Therefore it is true: "Oneself is a half-fragment,"
       as Yajnavalkya has said. Therefore this space is filled by a lover.
       He took her and joined with Her. Therefrom were all human beings
       produced.

       Thence She bethought: "How does he now join with Me, from which he
       has produced from HimSelf? I shall hide MySelf." She took the form
       of a cow, and he a bull. With Her He did indeed join. She became a
       mare; He a stallion; She a ewe, He a ram; She a she-goat, He a
       he-goat. With Her verily He did join; therefrom indeed, He created
       all, even down to the ants.

       He knew: "I am indeed this creation, for I emitted all from MySelf."
       Thence arose creation. Verily, he who has this knowledge comes to be
       in that creation of His.

       From His mouth and His hands, He created fire. All that is moist, He
       created from semen, and that is Soma. This whole world, verily, is
       but food and the eater of food.

       This that people say, "Worship this god! Worship that god!" one god
       after another--this is his creation indeed! He HimSelf is all the
       gods.

       That was Brahman's creation: that he created the gods, his
       'superiors,' that being 'mortal,' he created the 'immortals.'
       Verily, he who knows this comes to be in that super-creation of His.

       Verily, at that time the world was undifferentiated. It became
       differentiated just by name and form, as the saying is: "He has such
       name, it has such form." Even today this world is differentiated
       solely by name and form.

       He is Within, even as a razor in a razor-case, or a fire in a
       fire-holder. Him they see not, for if 'seen' He is incomplete. When
       breathing, he becomes Breath, when speaking, the Voice, when seeing,
       the Eye, when hearing, the Ear, when thinking, the Mind: these are
       merely the names of his acts. Whoever worships one or another of
       these, he knows not; for he is incomplete in one or another of
       these. One should worship with the thought that He is just one's
       Self, for therein all these become One. Thou: one's Self, is the
       trace of this That, for by it one knows this That. Just as, verily,
       one may find by a footprint, thus. He finds fame and praise who
       knows this.

       That Self is dearer than a son, dearer than wealth, is dearer than
       all else, since this Self is That.

       If of one who speaks of anything else than the Self as his own, one
       should say "he shall lose what he owns," one would speak the truth.
       One should reverence the Self alone as own. He who reverences the
       Self alone as own doth know: what he holds dear, verily, it is not
       perishable.

       --BRHAD-ARANYAKA UPANISAD.

       In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
       the Word was God. AUM.