Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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V PRAPATHAKA, 19 KHANDA, 2.
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2. Of that Vaisvânara Self the head is Sutegas (having good light), the eye Visvardpa (multiform), the breath Prithagvartman (having various courses), the trunk Bahula (full), the bladder Rayi (wealth), the feet the earth, the chest the altar, the hairs the grass on the altar, the heart the Gårhapatya fire, the mind the Anvâhârya fire, the mouth the Åhavaniya fire.
NINETEENTH KHANDA. 1. “Therefore the first food which a man may take, is in the place of Homa. And he who offers that first oblation, should offer it to Prâna (upbreathing), saying Svâhâ. Then Prâna (up-breathing) is satisfied,
2. 'If Prâna is satisfied, the eye is satisfied, if the eye is satisfied, the sun is satisfied, if the sun is satisfied, heaven is satisfied, if heaven is satisfied, whatever is under heaven and under the sun is satisfied. And through their satisfaction he (the sacrificer or eater) himself is satisfied with offspring, cattle, health, brightness, and Vedic splendour.
by means of heaven as his head and the earth as his feet, these being the prâdesas; or, in the mouth and the rest, which are instruments, he is known as without action himself; or, he has the length from heaven to earth, heaven and earth being called prâdesa, because they are taught. The interpretation, supported by the Gâbâlastuti, that prâdesa is the measure from the forehead to the chin, he rejects. Abhivimâna is taken in the same meaning as abhimana in the Vedanta, seeing everything in oneself. Vaisvânara is taken as the real Self of all beings, and, in the end, of all Selfs, and as thus to be known and worshipped.
1 The object now is to show that to him who knows the Vaisva. nara Self, the act of feeding himself is like feeding Vaisvanara, and that feeding Vaisvânara is the true Agnihotra.
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