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 IV, 21.
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condition like that of those who ask (for what they want) from the wish-granting stone', when they obtain the thing desired. By performing action, O Kshatriya! people conquer (for themselves only) perishable worlds". (But) the man of understanding attains by knowledge to the everlasting glory—for there is no other way to it.
Dhritarashtra said: Where a Brahmana possessed of knowledge, perceives it, does it appear as white, as red, or again as black, or again as grey or tawny? What is the colour of that immortal, indestructible goal ?
Sanatsugata said: It appears not as white, as red, nor again as black, nor again as grey, nor tawny. It dwells not on earth, nor in the sky; nor does it bear a body in this oceano(-like world). It is not in the stars, nor does it dwell in the lightning ; nor is its form’ to be seen in the clouds, nor even in the air, nor in the deities; it is not to be seen in the moon, nor in the sun. It is not to be seen in Rik texts, nor in
'Called Kintamani. The effect of Brahmakarya is that those who practise it can get what they desire.
• Cl. Gha, p. 76; Khåndogya, p. 538; Mundaka, p. 279. • Cf. Svetåsvatara, p. 327. Cf. Brihadaranyaka, p. 877.
• Cl. Katha, p. 119; and Mundaka, p. 267. As to its not dwelling in canh, sky, &c., Sankara refers to Khindogy, p. 618, as implying that
• Literally, 'it bears no water in the ocean.' Water' is said by the commentators to mean the five clements of which the body is composed. See Manu 1, 5, and Khandogya, p. 330. In the Svetå. svalare it signifies mind (see p. 388). For ocean meaning world, or samsára; cf. Aicareya-upanishad, p. 182. Here I do not render rupa by colour, as before.
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