The word Upanishad means self-knowledge. The phala, the result of this knowledge is desirable. In fact it is the most desired. Self- knowledge is shreyas, that which is absolutely good. It is an ultimate achievement gaining which, one can say, there is nothing more to achieve.
Any kind of achievement cannot give a person lasting happiness or security. But in the gain of self-knowledge, wherein a life of becoming has found its culmination, all achievements are happily accomplished. This is what we call shreyas.
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