Taittiriya Upanishad - 3. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05/02/2020. Post-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. It is not merely possessing a kingdom; that also may look like a happiness which is sudden and simultaneous. A king who is the ruler of this whole world may imagine that he has simultaneous happiness of the entire kingdom of the earth. "The entire earth is mine," the king may feel. But the entire earth stands outside the king. The experiencing consciousness of the king does not hold under his grip or possession this vast earth that he considers as the means of his satisfaction. So the king's happiness is a futile, imaginary pleasure; really, he does not possess the world. The world stands outside. If the obj