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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SANATSUGÂTİYA.
are mentioned (as attainable) by the twice-born by means of worship’, those, say the Vedas, are the highest aim? How is it, then, that one who understands this does not resort to action ?
Sanatsugåta said : (Thinking) so, an ignorant man does resort to action. The Vedas likewise do lay down various benefits : (for him). But that. (man) comes not hither. (Becoming) the supreme self“, he attains the supreme, by the (right) path destroying the wrong paths ?.
Dhritarashtra said: Who is it that constrains this unborn primeval (self), if it is (itself) all this severally? And what
· Gyotish/oma, Asvamedha, and other rites. • As leading to final emancipation.
• I.e. objects for which various ceremonies (or actions') should be performed.
• I.e. the man of knowledge. • I.e. into the sphere of action. Cr. Gila, p. 48.
• Knowing the supreme self is identical with becoming the supreme self, Mundaka, p. 323.
' I.e. getting rid of the paths which keep one away from the Brahman by means of contemplation of the Brahman, &c. Nilakantha renders 'right path' to mean the Sushumnå passage by which the soul proceeds to final emancipation, see Khandogya, p. 670; Katha, p. 157.
Sankara says: “Having shown that true death is heedlessness, and having shown that heedlessness in its forms of anger &c. is the cause of all evil, and having also shown that death is destroyed by true knowledge, and having shown further that heaven &c. are really not man's highest goal; the author has also implied the unity of the supreme and individual self. On that arises a doubu which is stated in this passage.'
• All this=all the developments of the Brahman, i.e. space, wind, fire, water, earth, vegetation, food, living creatures; see Taittirfyopanishad, p. 68.
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