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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
is led (produced) by knowledge (the Self). Knowledge is its cause '.
7. Knowledge is Brahman. (3)
8. He (Vamadeva), having by this conscious self stepped forth from this world, and having obtained all desires in that heavenly world, became immortal, yea, he became immortal. Thus it is, Om. (4)
SEVENTH ADHYÅYA.
FIRST KHANDA. 1. My speech rests in the mind, my mind rests in speech 3 Appear to me (thou, the Highest Self)! You (speech and mind) are the two pins* (that hold the wheels) of the Veda. May what I have learnt not forsake me 6. I join day and night with what I have learnto. I shall speak of the real, I shall speak the true. May this protect me, may this protect the teacher! May it protect me, may it protect the teacher, yea, the teacher!
1 We have no words to distinguish between pragtid, state of knowing, and pragilâna, act of knowing. Both are names of the Highest Brahman, which is the beginning and end (pratishtha) of everything that exists or seems to exist.
• This seventh adhyâya contains a propitiatory prayer (sântikaro mantral). It is frequently left out in the MSS. which contain the Aitareya-upanishad with Sankara's commentary, and Dr. Röer has omitted it in his edition. Sâyana explains it in his commentary on the Aitareya-âranyaka; and in one MS. of Sankara's commentary on the Aitareya-upanishad, which is in my possession, the seventh adhyâya is added with the commentary of Madhavamâtya, the Āgkåpalaka of Virabukka-mahâråga.
* The two depend on each other. • Åni, explained by the commentator as anayanasamartha. 8 Cf. Kh. Up. IV, 2, 5. • I repeat it day and night so that I may not forget it.
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| SR No. | 007670 |
| Book Title | Upnishad |
| 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 |