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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ANUGÍTÂ.
doubts. And we', likewise, are afraid of worldly life, and also desirous of final emancipation.
Vasudeva said: That talented preceptor, who preserved (all) vows, O son of Prithâ! O chief of the family of the Kauravas! O restrainer of foes ! duly explained all those questions to that pupil, who had approached him (for instruction), who put (his) questions properly, who was possessed of (the necessary) qualifications, who was tranquil, who conducted himself in an agree able manner, who was like (his) shadow 7, and who was a self-restrained ascetic and a Brahmakârin.
The preceptor said: All this, which is connected with the knowledge of the Vedas' and involves a consideration of the real entity, and which is cultivated by the chief sages, was declared by Brahman. We consider knowledge only as the highest thing; and renunciation • as the best penance. And he who understands determinately the true object of knowledge which is impregnable 6—the self abiding in all entities—and who can move about anywhere, is esteemed highest. The learned man who perceives the abiding together?,
It is not easy 10 account for the change here from the singulas to the plural.
• I.e. always attended on the preceptor. Cl. generally, Mundaka, p. 283.
The question was not quite from his own imagination, says Nilakantha. Arguna Misra has a diferent reading, which be interprets to mean that on which the Vedas are all at one.'
• of the fruit of action, Argruna Misra.
" I.e. not such as lo require modification by any other knowledge, as knowledge of the world does.
• Nilakantha compares K'handogya, pp. 523-553.
* I.e. of Kil and Gada, says Nilakantha; of Brahman and its manifestations, as alluded to, inter alia, at pp. 105, 106, 191 supra.
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