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 V, 21.
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sacrifices) of some are by the mind, of others by speech, and also by deed. The man void of fancies takes precedence over the man perfected by fancies,
-especially among Brahmanas!. And hear this further from me. One should teach this great and glorious' (doctrine); (other doctrines) the wise call mere arrangements of words. On this concentration of mind, all this depends. Those who know this become immortal. Not by meritorious action only, O king! does man conquer the truth. One may offer offerings, or sacrifice. By that the child(-like man) does not cross beyond death ; nor, O king! does he obtain happiness in his last moments. One should practise devotion quietly, and should not be active even in mind '; and then one should avoid delight and wrath (resulting) from praise and censure. I say to you, O learned person ! that adhering to this, one attains the Brahman and perceives it, O Kshatriya! by a course (of study) of the Vedas.
'This also is far from clear. Should it be, 'and a Brahmana more especially?' This might be taken as referring to one who knows the Brahman as devoid of qualities, as Nilakantha does take it. But his construction is not quite clear. * As serviceable in attaining to the glory,' the Brahman; sec p. 180.
See note i at p. 181. As to arrangements of words,' cf. Maitri, p. 179
• Everything,' says one copy of Sankara's commentary; 'all that is good and desirable,' say's another.
· Cf. inter alia, Mundaka, pp. 281-314.
• For he has got to undergo migration from one life to another as the result of the action. Cf. Brihadaranyaka, p. 856; Mundaka, p. 278. ' Cf. Gitá, p. 70.
• Ibid. pp. 101-110. I.e. the yoga or concentration of mind here described. This stanza, like many others in this chapter, occurs in chapter III with slighe variations.
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