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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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
5. He thought: ‘There are these worlds ; shall I send forth guardians of the worlds ?'
He then formed the Purusha (the person) ?, taking him forth from the water. (3)
6. He brooded on him, and when that person had thus been brooded on, a mouth burst forth • like an egg. From the mouth proceeded speech, from speech Agni (fire) •.
Nostrils burst forth. From the nostrils proceeded scent (präna), from scent Vayu (air).
Eyes burst forth. From the eyes proceeded sight, from sight Aditya (sun).
Ears burst forth. From the ears proceeded hearing, from hearing the Dis (quarters of the world).
Skin burst forth. From the skin proceeded hairs (sense of touch), from the hairs shrubs and trees.
The heart burst forth. From the heart proceeded mind, from mind Kandramas (moon).
The navel burst forth. From the navel proceeded the Apâna (the down-breathing)?, from Apâna death.
1 Purusha; an embodied being, Colebrooke; a being of human shape, Röer; purushâkâram vira/pindam, Sayana.
* According to the commentator, from the five elements, beginning with water. That person is meant for the Virag.
9 Tap, as the commentator observes, does not mean here and in similar passages to perform austerities (tapas), such as the Kikkhra, the Kandrayana, &c., but to conceive and to will and to create by mere will. I have translated it by brooding, though this expresses a part only of the meaning expressed by tap.
• Literally, was opened.
* Three things are always distinguished here—the place of each sense, the instrument of the sense, and the presiding deity of the sense.
Präna, i.e. ghránendriya, must be distinguished from the prâna, the up-breathing, one of the five prânas, and likewise from the präna as the principle of life.
"The Apâna, down-breathing, is generally one of the five vital airs
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