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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KAUSHİTAKI-UPANISHAD.
the Saman verses, Bhadra and Yagñayagñiya, are its cross-sides at the head and feet (east and west); the Rik and Saman are the long sheets ? (east and west); the Yagus the cross-sheets (south and north); the moon-beam the cushion; the Udgitha the (white) coverlet; prosperity the pillow 2. On this couch sits Brahman, and he who knows this (who knows himself one with Brahman sitting on the couch) mounts it first with one foot only. Then Brahman says to him : 'Who art thou ?' and he shall answer :
6. 'I am (like) a season, and the child of the seasons, sprung from the womb of endless space, from the light (from the luminous Brahman). The light, the origin of the year, which is the past, which is the present, which is all living things, and all elements, is the Self S. Thou art the Self. What thou art, that am I.'
Brahman says to him : Who am I?' He shall answer : “That which is, the true' (Sat-tyam).
Brahman asks: What is the true ?' He says to him: What is different from the gods and from the senses (prâna) that is Sat, but the gods and the
1 Sheets or coverings seem more applicable here than mere threads forming the woof and warp; cf. Aufrecht, Indische Studien I, p. 131.
'I read udgîtha upasrih, srîr upabarhanam. The Atharva text has udgîtho 'pasrayah.
This passage is corrupt, and the various readings and various interpretations of the commentators do not help us much. One view, which I have followed, as far as possible, is that it had to be explained how the same being could be the child of the seasons, or living from year to year, and, at the same time, born of the light. The answer is, Because light is the seed or cause of the year, and the year the cause of everything else. I take no responsibility for this view, and I see no way of discovering the original reading and the original meaning of these sentences.
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