Kaivalya Upanishad
With Advaita Commentary
9,902 words
The Kaivalya Upanishad is an advanced philosophy and is in reply to the plea of Ashvalayana, already advanced in both years and practice. Ashvalayana askes for the full understanding and realisation of the truth of his non-dual identity with the Absolute Brahman or God....
Verse 22
22. I alone am taught in the various Vedas, I am the revealer of the Vedanta or Upanishads, and I am also the Knower of the Vedas. For me there is neither merit nor demerit, I suffer no destruction, I have no birth, nor any self-identity with the body and the organs.
"I alone am taught in the various Vedas".
The Vedas symbolise knowledge itself which is the Absolute itself Alone.
"I am the revealer of the Vedanta or Upanishads, and I am also the Knower of the Vedas".
The Absolute is Existence as Knowledge. Knowledge lights and reveals the "Vedanta or Upanishads" and literally all things.
"For me there is neither merit nor demerit".
As the Absolute is the One supreme controller or Will then the Absolute can suffer no labels of division.
"I suffer no destruction, I have no birth, nor any self-identity with the body and the organs".
The Absolute is without origination therefore is immutable and immortal and is beyond destruction. Without origination it is without birth and being formless it encompasses all things and is identified with none.
There is nothing that is not "I". Further to this, but also the significance of this, Reality itself is a creation of "I"