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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ANUGÍTA.
form of yours'. But that, О Kesava! which through affection (for me) you explained before, has all disappeared, O tiger-like man! from my degenerate mind. Again and again, however, I feel a curiosity about those topics. But (now), O Madhava! you will be going at no distant date to Dvåraka.'
Vaisampayana said: Thus addressed, that best of speakers, Krishna, possessed of great glory, replied in these words after embracing Arguna.
Vasudeva said : From me, O son of Pritha! you heard a mystery; and learnt about the eternals (principle), about piety in (its true) form, and about all the everlasting worlds. It is excessively disagreeable to me, that you should not have grasped it through want of intelligence. And the recollection (of it) now again is not possible (to me). Really, 0 son of Pandu! you are devoid of faith and of a bad intellect. And, O Dhanangaya! it is not possible for me to repeat in full (what I said before). For that doctrine was perfectly adequate for understanding the seat of the Brahman. It is not possible for me to state it again in full in that way. For then accompanied by my mystic power, I declared to you the Supreme Brahman. But I shall relate an ancient story upon
Cr. Bhagavadgitá, chapters X and XI passim. I.e. in the Bhagavadgita.
This may also be taken with piety thus : 'and learnt about the eternal piety in (its true) form.' • As to the plural, scc Sankara on Mundaka, p. 320.
Cr. Gitá, p. 78. For understanding here we might, perhaps, ubstitute 'altaining! The original word mcans both understanding and at:aining.
• Cl. Giv, p. 83.
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