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III ÂRANYAKA, 2 ADHYAYA, 4 KHANDA, IO.
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for another, let him not recite the Sastras of that day for another.
6. However, let him willingly do this for a father or for an Åkarya; for that is done really for himself.
7. We have said that the incorporeal conscious self and the sun are one. When these two become separated, the sun is seen as if it were the moon ; no rays spring from it; the sky is red like madder; the patient cannot retain the wind, his head smells bad like a raven's nest :- let him know then that his self (in the body) is gone, and that he will not live very long
8. Then whatever he thinks he has to do, let him do it, and let him recite the following hymns : Yad anti yak ka darake (Rv. IX, 67, 21-27); Åd it pratnasya retasah (Rv. VIII, 6, 30); Yatra brahma pavamâna (Rv. IX, 113, 6–11); Ud vayam tamasas pari (Rv. I, 50, 10).
9. Next, when the sun is seen pierced, and seems like the nave of a cart-wheel, when he sees his own shadow pierced, let him know then that it is so (as stated before, i. e. that he is going to die soon).
10. Next, when he sees himself in a mirror or in the water with a crooked head, or without a head, or when his pupils are seen inverted or not straight, let him know then that it is so.
1 Ait. Âr. III, 2, 3, 8.
• This separation of the self of the sun and the conscious self within us is taken as a sign of approaching death, and therefore a number of premonitory symptoms are considered in this place.
* Los M ocions, Xen. Hist. gr. 4, 3, 10. • The Kashmir MS. reads givayishyati. 6 The Kashmir MS. reads gibmasirasam våsarfram átmånam. . • A white pupil in a black eye-ball. Comm.
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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 |