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Passages similar to: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — Brahmana 1
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Hindu
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (6.1.11)
The Mind went off. Having remained away a year, it came back and said: ' How have you been able to live without me?' They said: ' As the stupid, not knowing with the mind, but breathing with breath, speaking with speech, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, procreating with semen. Thus have we lived.' The mind entered in. 12,. The Semen went off. Having remained away a year, it came back and said: ' How have you been able to live without me? ' They said: ' As the emasculated, not procreating with semen, but breathing with breath, speaking with speech, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, knowing with the mind. Thus have we lived.' The semen entered in.
Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (11)
The mind departed, and having been absent for a year, it came round and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied: 'Like...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (8-10)
The tongue (speech) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came round and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied:...
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Hermetic
10. The Key (24)
For oftentimes the mind doth leave the soul, and at that time the soul neither sees nor understands, but is just like a thing that hath no reason. Suc...
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Hermetic
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (22)
Have not all men then Mind? Thou sayest well, O thou, thus speaking. I, Mind, myself am present with holy men and good, the pure and merciful, men...
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Hermetic
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (24)
Well hast thou taught me all, as I desired, O Mind. And now, pray, tell me further of the nature of the Way Above as now it is [for me]. To this...
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Taoist
The Secret of the Golden Flower
The Primordial Spirit and the Conscious Spirit (3)
ANSWER: How could the true thought in the square inch be moved? If it really moves, it is not well. For when ordinary men die, then it moves, but that is not...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (6)
'Thus, my dear son, there was one part of the sixteen parts left to you, and that, lighted up with food, burnt up, and by it you remember now the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 3 (1)
For as the closed fist holds two amalaka or two kola or two aksha fruits, thus does mind hold speech and name. For if a man is minded in his mind to r...
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Hermetic
12. About The Common Mind (2)
For where is Soul, there too is Mind; just as where Life, there is there also Soul. But in irrational lives their soul is life devoid of mind; for Min...
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Hermetic
9. On Thought and Sense (2)
For neither without sensing can one think, nor without thinking sense. But it is possible [they say] to think a thing apart from sense, as those who f...
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Gnostic
Darkness Ejaculates Mind into the Womb of Nature (2)
They became clouds that varied in their appearance. They were called hymen, afterbirth, power, and water. And the hymen and the afterbirth and the pow...
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Hermetic
10. The Key (16)
It is the same for them who go out from the body. For when the soul withdraws into itself, the spirit doth contract itself within the blood, and the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 6 (5)
'For mind, my child, comes of earth, breath of water, speech of fire.' 'Please, Sir, inform me still more,' said the son. 'Be it so, my child,' the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 5 (4)
Be it so, my child,' the father replied....
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Gnostic
Teachings of Silvanus (20)
If you mix yourself, you will acquire the three parts as you fall from virtue into inferiority. Live according to the Mind. Do not think about things...
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Hermetic
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (17)
In such wise than, as I have said, the generation of these seven came to pass. Earth was as woman, her Water filled with longing; ripeness she took...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 15 (2)
'But when his speech is merged in his mind, his mind in breath, breath in heat (fire), heat in the Highest Being, then he knows them not. 'That which...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (2)
'As a bird when tied by a string flies first in every direction, and finding no rest anywhere, settles down at last on the very place where it is...
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