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The Upanishads and The Matrix  

An actor takes many roles but he remains the same. God is like this. Different are his names and his //form//s but he is the "one" behind it all.
--Mata Amritanandamayi  

The central theme of The Matrix Trilogy questions the reality of this world we live in. This is also the essence of a branch of Vedic literature known as the Upanishads whose purpose is to explain the truth about the universe and our particular role in it as human souls. Although The Matrix Trilogy draws on many different spiritual traditions for its names and mythological symbols, the core of the story seems to be strongly influenced by both the Upanishads and the Puranas, a series of dramatic mythological narratives about battles between good and evil, which explain the principles laid out in the Upanishads.  

The Upanishads are a collection of approximately 120 literary works written mostly in the //form// of dialogues between a spiritual master and his students. Responding to a series of inquiries about the nature of reality, the master leads his students to a state of enlightenment or realization, like Morpheus and Neo. The Upanishads also include Vedanta, the final chapter of Vedic literature, in which the illusory concept of Maya is exposed and instructions are given about how to understand it.  

Similarity of the themes indicate that The Matrix Trilogy is strongly influenced by the Upanishads, which is further strengthened when we hear the music behind the credits for Matrix Revolutions. The song "Navras," brilliantly composed by Don Davis and Ben Watkins, is comprised of a series of Upanishadic verses, the chief one being Asatoma sad gamayay, set to music. Similar chants are also used in the background during the fight scenes between Neo and Smith. The following is an extract from an interview with composer Don Davis:  

[quote] Larry and Andy told me they wanted the super burly brawl, which is the cataclysmic fight mano-et-mano between Neo and Agent Smith, they wanted the choir to have a significant voice in that scene. And I told them that I thought that was a really good idea but if the choir just sang "ooooohs" and "aaaaaaaahs" it would be significantly not very good. So I asked them if they would look for something in literature that represented some of the ideological themes that had influenced them when they were writing The Matrix that we could give to the choir and have them sing. And I told them that I actually preferred a language that wasn't English and if possible a "dead" language like Latin, so that even around the world there's nobody who is actively speaking the language that the choir is singing. They eventually came up with about six passages from the Vedic //script//ures called the Upanishads. And we had them sing it in the original Sanskrit. And these texts are amazingly apropos to the whole ontological concept of The Matrix. It refers to "the one." Let me read one of them: "In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air. And in him rests the mind and all the powers of life. Know him as "The One" and leave aside all other words. He is the bridge of immortality." I mean [laughs] that's amazing. And the first text you hear sung in the burly brawl sequence is a prayer which goes "From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to immortality." I think that adds a whole layer of meaning to the entire trilogy. [end of quote]

Keeping this in mind, the purpose of this book is a scholarly look at The Matrix Trilogy in the light of the Upanishads and particularly from the concept of unity or "Oneness" that is the key teaching of this //script//ure. The uniqueness of the Upanishads is that the Truth revealed by it does not differ from other spiritual traditions of the World. Like the universality of scientific facts discovered throughout the world, the Truth declared by Upanishads is unanimous for all other cultures. Therefore through this book you can identify the Truth immaterial of your spiritual background.