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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CHAPTER XIII, 13.
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aversion, pleasure, pain, body, consciousness, courage, thus in brief has been declared the Kshetra with changes! Absence of vanity, absence of ostentatiousness, absence of hurtfulness, forgiveness, straightforwardness, devotion to a preceptor, purity, steadiness, self-restraint, indifference towards objects of sense, and also absence of egoism ; perception of the misery and evil of birth, death, old age, and disease; absence of attachment, absence of selfidentifying regard for son, wife, home, and so forth; and constant equability on the approach of (both what is) agreeable and (what is) disagreeable ; unswerving devotion to me, without meditation on any one else; resorting to clean places, distaste for assemblages of men, constancy in knowledge of the relation of the individual self to the supreme, perception of the object of knowledge of the truth, this is called knowledge; that is ignorance which is opposed to this. I will declare that which is the object of knowledge, knowing which, one reaches immortality; the highest Brahman, having no beginning nor end, which cannot be said to be existent or non-existent". It has hands and feet on all sides, it has eyes, heads, · and faces on all sides, it has ears on all sides, it
See the last page. Changes=development. • Internal as well as external; as to devotion to a preceptor, cf. Apastambe, p. 11 (p. 33 in this series); Taittiriya-apanishad, p. 38; Svettsvatara, p. 117; and Sutta Nipata, p. 87; as to egoism, see p. 53 supra
· Cl. Satta Nipäta, pp. 18-95. • CL. Suua Nipata, p. 13. Cr. Sutta Nipila, p. 11. • Viz. removal of ignorance and acquisition of happiness.
* Words indicate a class, a quality, an action, or a relation, says Sankan. None of these can be predicated of the Brahman; 80 you cannot apply either of these words to it. Cl. pp. 84,96 supra, also Svetervalara, p. 346.
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