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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VIII PRAPATHAKA, 14 KHANDA, I.
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THIRTEENTH KHANDA !. 1. From the dark (the Brahman of the heart) I come to the nebulous (the world of Brahman), from the nebulous to the dark, shaking off all evil, as a horse shakes his hairs, and as the moon frees herself from the mouth of Råhu Having shaken off the body, I obtain, self made and satisfied, the uncreated world of Brahman, yea, I obtain it.
FOURTEENTH KHANDA. 1. He who is called ethers (akása) is the revealer of all forms and names. That within which these forms and names are contained is the Brahman, the Immortal, the Self.
I come to the hall of Pragâpati, to the house; I am the glorious among Brahmans, glorious among princes, glorious among men“. I obtained that glory, I am glorious among the glorious. May I never go to the white, toothless, yet devouring, white abode ; may I never go to it.
1 This chapter is supposed to contain a hymn of triumph.
· Rahu, in later times a monster, supposed to swallow the sun and moon at every solar or lunar eclipse. At first we only hear of the mouth or head of Rahu. In later times a body was assigned to him, but it had to be destroyed again by Vishnu, so that nothing remained of him but his head. Rahu seems derived from rah, to separate, to remove. From it raksh, to wish or strive to remove, to keep off, to protect, and in a different application rákshas, a tearing away, violence, rakshás, a robber, an evil spirit.
: Akâsa, ether or space, is a name of Brahman, because, like ether, Brahman has no body and is infinitely small.
• Here the three classes, commonly called castes, are clearly marked by the names of brâhmana, ragan, and vis.
6 Yonisabditam pragananendriyam.
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