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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
considered independent, thus says Agastya. For it is the same, whether they say air or ether!
5. So far with reference to deities (mythologically); now with reference to the body (physiologically):
6. The former half is speech, the latter half is mind, their union breath (prâna), thus says Saravfra Mândukeya.
7. But his eldest son said: The former half is mind, the latter half speech. For we first conceive with the mind indeeds, and then we utter with speech. Therefore the former half is indeed mind, the latter half speech, but their union is really breath.
8. Verily, it is the same with both, the father (Mândukeya) and the son
9. This (meditation as here described), joined 0 with mind, speech, and breath, is (like) a chariot drawn by two horses and one horse between them (prashtivahana).
10. And he who thus knows this union, becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age. 11. Now all this comes from the Mândukeyas.
SECOND KHANDA. 1. Next comes the meditation as taught by Såkalya.
1 Both views are tenable, for it is not the actual air and ether which are meditated on, but their names, as declared and explained in this peculiar act of worship. We should read åkåsasketi, a reading confirmed both by the commentary and by the Kashmir MS.
• The man among heroes. Comm. .: The Kashmir MS. reads manasaivâgre.
• Both views are admissible. Comm. • Pranasambitah, Kashmir MS,
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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 |