JAI SAI RAM!!!
The Upanishads are not against the senses. They are spiritually sensuous; they do not deny. Denial is not their slogan at all, denial is not their attitude.
They accept and they say that even in the senses the divine is moving because there is nothing else to move. They make everything sacred, they make everything holy. They do not condemn, they do not say this is sin. Sin is unknown to the Upanishads, absolutely unknown. They say there is no sin -- that everything is a play. Even in sin, even in the sinner, the same energy is moving.
Everything becomes holy. And if you can say with your full heart that everything is holy, holy, holy, YOU will become holy immediately because the very feeling that everything is holy and sacred makes the sin disappear. Sin is created by condemnation and the more you condemn, the more sinners you create.
The whole world has become a great crowd of sinners because everything has been condemned -- everything! There is not a single thing which you can do which has not been condemned by someone or other. With everything condemned, you become a sinner. Then guilt arises -- and when there is guilt you can pray but the prayer is poisonous; it comes out of your guilt. When you are guilty you can pray but that prayer is based on fear. That prayer is not love; it cannot be. Through guilt love is impossible. Feeling yourself condemned, a sinner, how can you love?
The Upanishads say that everything is holy because HE is the source of all. Whether or not the river looks dirty to you is irrelevant.
HE is the source of all -- the dirty river and the sacred Ganges, to both HE gives the energy. To the sinner to the saint, HE gives the energy.
HE created the saint and then HE became the sinner and then the hide-and-seek....
Have total acceptance of whatsoever exists. Just by being in existence, it is holy.
IT -- THE ATMAN, or the Brahman -- IS THE EAR OF THE EAR, THE MIND OF THE MIND, THE SPEECH OF THE SPEECH, THE PRANA OF THE PRANA, AND THE EYE OF THE EYE. WISE MEN SEPARATING THE ATMAN FROM THESE -- SENSE FUNCTIONS -- RISE OUT OF SENSE LIFE AND ATTAIN TO IMMORTALITY.
Whatsoever you do it is HIM -- it is the functioning of HIM, of the total. The total functions in you.
OM SAI RAM!!!