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.
anything else, though he may read this (the Mahâvrata) where he has read something else.
12. No one should bathe and become a snâtaka1 who does not read this. Even if he has read many other things, he should not become a snâtaka if he has not read this.
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13. Nor should he forget it, and even if he should forget anything else, he should not forget this.
14. 'No, he should never forget this.
15. 'If he does not forget this, it will be enough for himself (or for acquiring a knowledge of the Self).
16. It is enough, let him know this to be true.
17. 'Let him who knows this not communicate, nor dine, nor amuse himself with any one who does not know it.'
Then follow some more rules as to the reading of the Veda in general:
18. When the old water that stood round the roots of trees is dried up (after about the month of Pausha, January to February 2) he should not read; nor (at any time) in the morning or in the afternoon, when the shadows meet (he should begin at sunrise so soon as the shadows divide, and end in the evening before they fall together). Nor should he read when a cloud has risen; and when there is an unseasonable rain (after the months of Srâvana and Bhâdrapada, August and September') he should stop his Vedic reading for three nights. Nor should he at that time tell stories, not even during the night, nor should he glory in his knowledge.
19. 'This (the Veda thus learnt and studied) is the name of that Great Being; and he who thus knows the name of that Great Being, he becomes Brahman, yea, he becomes Brahman.'
1Âpastamba-sutras, translated by Bühler, p. 92 (I, 2, 30, 4). 2 Âpastamba-sûtras, translated by Bühler, p. 33 (I, 3, 9, 2). Apastamba-sûtras, translated by Bühler, p. 44 (I, 3, 11, 31). Âpastamba-sutras, translated by Bühler, p. 33 (I, 3, 9, 1).
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