Future Unwritten Upanishads
The Sacred Texts We Haven't Written Yet
What if the sages were alive today? What would they say about presidents tweeting, influencers selling salvation, or a marketplace that consumes our very attention? Future Unwritten Upanishads offers glimpses of those conversations—sometimes serious, sometimes satirical, always pointing toward the eternal behind the absurd. View the collection.
Antarmukha Upanishad
(The Inward Turning)
Invocation
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते ।
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
Om. That is whole, this is whole. From the Whole, the whole arises.
Taking away the whole from the Whole, the Whole alone remains.
I. The Question
Where shall I go?
The roads are many, the voices loud,
each promising freedom,
each binding the feet.
II. The Teacher
Go inward.
The road is one.
It is short, yet endless.
It is narrow, yet boundless.
Few walk it, yet it is open to all.
III. The Net Falls Away
Turn inward, the Net falls away.
Turn inward, the crowd dissolves.
Turn inward, the idols crack.
Turn inward, the king is dust.
IV. The Seeing
He who looks outward is lost in images.
He who looks inward sees the Seer.
The Seer sees without being seen.
He knows without knowing.
He is silence within sound,
stillness within motion,
light within shadow.
V. The Paradox
Seek, and you will not find.
Stop seeking, and it is here.
Turn the gaze inward,
and the inward turns outward.
The seeker vanishes,
but That remains.
VI. The Resolution
The outward is endless;
the inward is whole.
The outward is many;
the inward is one.
The outward dies;
the inward is deathless.
Closing Benediction
From the outward, lead us inward.
From the restless, to the still.
From the seen, to the Seer.
From death, to the Deathless.
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥