Upanishads-2

 How does a trustee describe the Lord?

No one can fully describe the Lord who has infinite auspicious
attributes. Hence, the Upanishads resort to three categories of descriptions
to convey the Lord’s nature in a way that can be comprehended by humans:
1. Positively – by pointing to the Lord’s limitless attributes such as
compassion.
2. Absence of negative attributes (defects).
3. Possessing seemingly contradictory attributes:
He is smaller than smallest imaginable object and larger than
largest imaginable object.
The Lord is near, yet He is far.
He is inside every object and at the same time outside the
universe.
He is everywhere, yet He travels with infinite speed (for the
purposes of comprehension, the Upanishat indicates that He
travels faster than the speed of thought).
All beings are in Him, and He is inside all beings

 How does a trustee pray to the Lord?
A: In the present Upanishat, Manu – who is the trustee – offers a very
thoughtful, sincere prayer to the Lord by submitting himself completely to
His mercy. Manu indicates that the Lord, who is an embodiment of Truth,
has His face hidden behind an extremely bright ‘golden vessel’ (sun), and
that one cannot see the Lord’s face as the powerful rays of the sun pervade
the entire space and blind the seeker. The prayer also indicates a qualified
seeker as one who accepts the Lord as the very embodiment of Truth, and
who always leads a righteous life.
The trustee also prays to the Lord to grant him both outer (worldly)
knowledge, and inner (spiritual) knowledge.

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