Fullness - Purna
Brahman is complete and infinite.
Brahman is purna - full, complete, infinite. From fullness comes fullness, yet fullness remains. This paradox points to the infinite nature of reality.
That is full, this is full. From fullness comes fullness. Taking fullness from fullness, fullness remains.
This verse captures the paradox of infinity.
Isha Upanishad
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- What the Upanishads say about the purpose of life
From fullness, fullness is taken, and fullness remains. Whatever purpose means here, it is not the filling of a gap.
- What the Upanishads say about grief
From fullness comes fullness; take fullness away from fullness and fullness remains. The Isha invocation is the nearest thing this tradition has to a consolation for subtraction — it claims that what is infinite is not reduced by what is removed from it.