Man in the Mirror PROJECT - Upanishads and Path of the Twin

Isha Upanishad

Verse 15

"The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight"

In the inner sense of the Veda Surya, the Sun-God represents the divine Illumination of the Kavi which exceeds mind and forms the pure self-luminous Truth of things.  His principal power is self-revelatory knowledge, termed in the Veda "Sight". His realm is described as the Truth, the Law, the Vast.  He is the Fosterer or Increaser, for he enlarges and opens man's dark and limited being into a luminous and infinite consciousness.  He is the sole Seer, Seer of Oneness and Knower of the Self, and leads him to the highest Sight.  He is Yama, Controller or Ordainer, for he governs man's action and manifested being by the direct Law of the Truth, satyadharma, and therefore by the right principle of our nature, ydthatathyatah, a luminous power proceeding from the Father of all existence, he reveals in himself the divine Purusha of whom all beings are the manifestations.  His rays are the thoughts that proceed luminously from the Truth, the Vast, but become deflected and distorted, broken up and disordered in the reflecting and dividing principle, Mind.  They form there the golden lid which covers the face of the Truth."  

  - The Upanishads, Sri Aurobindo

Several thousand years ago a man named Jesus inhabited the earth teaching us the same.  "Know thyself", he said.  When Gandhi came he told us we had to "be the change" we wanted to see in the world.  One common message, the one path always begins with us.

In the above verse and it's interpretation, Sri explains that there is but one Truth that is available to all. He explains that there is a Seer that is the Knower of the self that leads us to our highest sight.  In simple terms we might say it is the witness.  That part of ourselves that is not the ego or personality, but the soul witnessing the events and life lessons we play out.  When we think our thoughts, it is this seer that hears them, that notices, that knows that it is only that part of ourselves that has been made manifest through our deflected, distorted, reflecting and dividing principle, Mind.  It is not our true self.

In knowing this we find that the twin soul, that other part of ourselves, also resides with the Seer.  For the relationship of the twin is within the soul, not the ego.  Reunion with them, then only comes with knowledge of the self.  The witnessing and releasing of the patterns we have manifested within ourselves and the self work necessary to become illumined.  This right action not only will lead us to freedom, but freedom from our thoughts, limited beliefs and the knowledge of all there is.