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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VI PRAPATHAKA, 2 KHANDA, 3.
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all that is made of gold is known, the difference being only a name, arising from speech, but the truth being that all is gold ?
6. 'And as, my dear, by one pair of nail-scissors all that is made of iron (kärshnayasam) is known, the difference being only a name, arising from speech, but the truth being that all is iron,--thus, my dear, is that instruction.'
7. The son said: 'Surely those venerable men (my teachers) did not know that. For if they had known it, why should they not have told it me? Do you, Sir, therefore tell me that.' 'Be it so,' said the father.
SECOND KHANDAI. 1. 'In the beginning,' my dear, there was that only which is (rò ởv), one only, without a second. Others say, in the beginning there was that only which is not (tò un ov), one only, without a second; and from that which is not, that which is was
born.
2. But how could it be thus, my dear?' the father continued. How could that which is, be born of that which is not? No, my dear, only that which is, was in the beginning, one only, without a second.
3. 'It thought may I be many, may I grow forth. It sent forth fire .
Cf. Taitt. Up. II, 6.
Literally, it saw. This verb is explained as showing that the Sat is conscious, not unconscious (bewusst, nicht unbewusst).
In other Upanishads the Sat produces first â kâ sa, ether, then vâyu, air, and then only tegas, fire. Fire is a better rendering for tegas than light or heat. See Jacobi, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XXIX, p. 242. The difficulties, however, of
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