Small Universe

Maitri Upanishad IV:

"When, making the mind thoroughly firm,
Free from laxity and distraction,
One reaches a state without mind,
That is the highest state.

The mind should be kept in check
Until it has dissolved into the heart:
This is both knowledge and liberation.
The rest is multiplication of books.

The bliss that the stainless consciousness, washed by
concentration,
May have when it has been brought into the self
Cannot be described by speech:
It is experienced directly through the inner organ.

Water in water, fire in fire,
Or space in space cannot be made out:
Just so the one whose mind has gone within
Is completely freed.

For human beings the mind is cause
Of bondage and freedom.
When attached to objects, it brings bondage:
When without object, it brings freedom, so it
is recorded."