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CHAPTER IV, 5.
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midst of these created objects. Such is my request, O youth!
Sanatsugáta said: This Brahman, O king! about which you question me with such perseverance, is not to be attained by anybody who is in a hurry. When the mind is absorbed in the understanding, then can that knowledge, which must be deeply pondered over, be attained by living the life of a Brahmakårin. For you are speaking of that primordial knowledge 4, which consists in the truth; which is obtained by the good by living the life of Brahmakârins •; which being obtained, men cast off this mortal world; and which knowledge, verily, is to be invariably (found) in those who have been brought up under preceptors
Dhritarashtra said: Since that knowledge is capable of being truly acquired by living the life of a Brahmakarin, there. fore tell me, O Brâhmana! of what description the life of a Brahmakarin is ?.
Sanatsugåta said: Those who entering (as it were) the womb 8 of a ' In this material world, the highest knowledge is not to be got. Cf. Kasha, p. 96.
'l.c. withdrawn from objects and fixed on the self only. Cf. Gill, p. 79, and Maitrf, p. 179, where, however, we have hrid for buddhi.
· Virodana and Indra do so according to the Khåndogya, p. 570. See also Mundaka, p. 311.
• The object of which is the primal Brahman.
• Cf. Khandogya, p. 534; and Gità, pp. 78, 79, and the passage from the Katha there cited.
• K'hindogya, pp. 264-459. See Khandogya, p. 553 seq. • I.e. allending closely upon him; sælus=pupil.
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| 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 |