On this there is the following verse: ’The knower of Truth does not see death or disease or sorrow. The knower of Truth sees everything and obtains everything everywhere.’ He (the knower) is one before the creation, becomes three, becomes five, becomes seven, becomes nine; then again he is called eleven, one hundred and ten and one thousand and twenty. Now is described the discipline for inner purification by which Self-Knowledge is attained: When the food is pure, the mind becomes pure. When the mind is pure the memory becomes firm. When the memory is firm all ties are loosened. The venerable Sanatkumara showed Narada, after his blemishes had been wiped out, the other side of darkness. They call Sanatkumara Skanda, yea, Skanda they call him.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VII, XXVI – Self-knowledge, 2
Om. There is in this city of Brahman an abode, the small lotus of the heart; within it is a small akasa. Now what exists within that small akasa, that is to be sought after, that is what one should desire to understand.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VIII, I – Brahman in the Heart, 1
Downward they roll, then jump in the air! Though handless themselves, they can keep the upper hand over those who have! On the board, like magic coals, they consume, though cold, the player’s heart to ashes.
Rig Veda X, 34, 9
Abandoned, the wife of the gambler grieves. Grieved, too, is his mother as he wanders vaguely. Afraid and in debt, ever greedy for money, he steals in the night to the home of another.
Rig Veda X, 34, 10
He is seized by remorse when he sees his wife’s lot, beside that of her neighbor with well-ordered home. In the morning, however, he yokes the brown steeds and at evening falls stupid before the cold embers.
Rig Veda X, 34, 11
