This causeless auspiciousness, the energy to create bliss wherever he is, wherever he happens, arises out of his innocent inner space. In the vedic tradition, there are scriptural writings called Upanishads. The word upanishad in Sanskrit refers to teachings of a master to his disciples as they sat with him. There are 08 such Upanishads. They are the essence of the enlightenment science handed down by the great masters of the vedic times. One of these, the Chandogya Upanishad* describes a beautiful story: A boy by name Satyakama goes to a master seeking enlightenment. The master gives him four hundred cows telling him, Take these cows. Go live in the forest and look after them. When these multiply into a thousand cows bring them back to me.

Satyakama goes to the forest and lives with the cows, waiting for them to multiply. It takes many years for the cows to multiply to one thousand. For all those years he sits not talking to anybody, just being with the cows. Soon, he forgets the human language. In deep silence, not relating with any human being, he slowly loses his outer world identity. By the time one thousand cows happen, he forgets how to count. He simply sits waiting, with a beautiful feeling of ecstasy. Finally a cow comes to him and says, Sir, we have become one thousand now. We can go back to master. He replies, Is that so? Alright. Satyakama is in ecstasy. He has forgotten the way back. The cows lead the way.

On the way back, animals, birds and even the fire that he kindles to cook his food instruct him on the nature of the Brahman*, the ultimate Truth. When Satyakama returns to the master, the master looks at him and smiles. He says, You look so radiant like the knower of the Truth, Satyakama. Who taught you? Satyakama tells him how he had understood the Truth through animals and birds and requests the master to teach him the Truth in his own words. The master says, You already know the Truth, and blesses him. The story says that just by being, just by listening to what nature has to say, Satyakama established himself in the Truth. He became enlightened. Total innocence leads to enlightenment. Chandogya Upanishad - One of the oldest and primary Upanishads or scriptures.

Brahman - Absolute, Cosmic Consciousness, formless god etc all referring to the universal energy source of which the individual energy of the soul is a holographic part.