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.
CHAPTER VI. That pure?, great lights, which is radiant; that great glory 3; that, verily, which the gods worship ; that by means of which the sun shines forth :that eternal divine being is perceived by devotees. From (that) pure (principle) the Brahman is produced ; by (that) pure (principle) the Brahman is developed ?; that pure (principle), not illumined among all radiant (bodies), is (itself) luminous and illuminates (them) & That eternal divine being is perceived by devotees. The perfect is raised out of the perfect. It (being raised) out of the perfect is called the perfect. The perfect is withdrawn from the perfect, and the perfect only remains ! That eternal divine being is perceived by devotees.
"Free from ignorance and other taints. See Katha, p. 144.
• Sankara compares Katha, p. 142. See, too, Mundaka, p. 303 ; and note 4 infra.
• Svetâsvatara, p. 347, and p. 180 supra. • Sankara refers to Brihadaranyaka, p. 887. . Cf. Gitâ, p. 112, note 1.
• Named Hiranyagarbha,' Sankara. Cf. Gilâ, p. 107; Svetâsvatara, p. 354; Mundaka, p. 309; Maitri, p. 130; Taitt. Aran. p. 894.
?• In the form of Virág,' says Sankara. As to these two, cf. Mundaka, pp. 270-272; and Sankara's and Anandagiri's notes there. See also Svetâsvatara, pp. 324, 325; and Nrisimha Tâpini, pp. 233, 234; Colebrooke, Essays, pp. 344, 368 (Madras reprint). The Virág corresponds rather to the gross material world viewed as a whole; the Hiranyagarbha to the subtle elements similarly viewed, an earlier stage in the development. Cf. the Vedantasära.
. Cl. Mundaka, p. 303, and Gitá, p. 113.
• The individual self is part of the supreme (Gità, p. 112); perfect = not limited by space, time, &c.; as being part of a thing perfect in its essence, the individual soul also is perfect. The individual self is withdrawn from the perfect, viz. the whole aggregate of body, senses, &c. presided over by the self, and when so withdrawn it appears to be the pure self only. Cl. Brihadaranyaka, p. 948.
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