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 II, 9.
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from heedlessness the gods attained to the Brahman. Death, verily, does not devour living creatures like a tiger ; for, indeed, his form is not to be perceived. Some say that death is different from this, (named) Yama, who dwells in the selfs; the (practice of the life of Brahmakarins (being) immortality. That god governs his kingdom in the world of the Pit is, (being) good to the good, and not good to (those who are) not good. That death, (or) heedlessness, develops in men as desire, and afterwards as wrath, and in the shape of delusion. And then travelling in devious paths through egoism, one does not attain to union with the self. Those who are deluded by it, and who remain under its inAuence, depart from this (world), and there again fall down?. Then the deities: gather around them. And then he undergoes death after death Being attached to the fruit of action, on action presenting itself, they follow after it 10, and do not cross
"Those deluded by worldly objects; this' means 'heedlessness'
Sankara cites a stanza from Manu, which says that king Yama Vaivasvaia dwells in the heart of every one. Cf. Aitareyaapanishad, p. 187. The following clause he understands to contain two epithets of Yama, meaning .immortal, and intent on the Brahman.' I follow Nflakartha, but not very confidently.
. Cf. Glu, p. 57. Here we have the developments, the varying forms, of death or heedlessness.
• I.c. paths contrary to Srutis and Smritis. . Concentration of mind on the self or Brahman. • I.e. the egoism spoken of before.
'l.e. to this mortal world. Cf. Gitá, p. 84, and Brihadaraxyaka, pp. 855, 856. There = from the next world. Sankara says, having lived there.'
1.e. the senses. Cr. Gitá, p. 123, and inter alia Isopanishad, R 10.
Cl. Kalta, p. 129, and Brihadiranyaka, p. 889. no 1.c. the fruit. Cf. Katka, p. 155, and Mundaka, p. 317.
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