Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
XCVII, 2.
2. He who is eternal, beyond the cognisance of the senses, destitute of qualities, not concerned with sound, tangibility, form, savour, or odour, knowing everything, of immense size,
3. He who pervades everything, and who is devoid of form,
4. Whose hands and feet are everywhere, whose eyes, head, and face are everywhere, and who is able to apprehend everything with all the senses.
5. Thus let him meditate.
6. If he remains absorbed in such meditation for a year, he obtains the accomplishment of Yoga (concentration of the thought and union with the Supreme).
7. If he is unable to fix his mind upon the being
ring all objects to self. (4-8) The "subtile elementary particles"(tanmatras) are identical with sound, tangibility, form, taste, and odour. (9-19) The eleven senses (i.e. the crgans of perception and action enumerated in CXVI, 94, 95, and manas, “the mind"), and (20–24) the five "grosser elements" (ether, air, fire, water, and earth) are productions (from the former entities). Purusha, who is neither producer nor produced, is the twenty-fifth entity.' (Nand.)
2, 3. According to Nand., all the properties of Purusha mentioned in this Satra are such as distinguish him from the rest of the entities, the first two distinguishing him from 'self-consciousness' (ahamkâra), the voidness of quality distinguishing him from the 'root-principle' (malaprakriti), which is composed of three qualities, &c.
4. The properties of Parusha here mentioned are faculties only, so that there is no contradiction to the voidness of form' and the other properties enumerated in the preceding Sûtras. (Nand.)
6. The external signs of the accomplishment of Yoga, as stated by Yâgñavalkya (III, 202 seq.), are, the faculty of entering another body and of creating anything at will, and other miraculous powers and qualities. (Nand.)
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