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 XXI, 2.
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(all) entities ?. Now I shall state with accuracy and with reasons, all the elements which abide in parts in all objects. The great self, the unperceived likewise, and likewise also egoism, the ten senses and the one* (sense), and the five great elements, and the specific characteristics of the five elements 6, such is the eternal creation. The number of the elements is celebrated as being twenty-four plus one. And the talented man who understands the production and dissolution of (all) elements, he, of all beings, never comes by delusion. He who accurately understands the elements, the whole of the qualities o, and also all the deities?, casting aside sin, and getting rid of (all) bonds, attains to all the spotless worlds.
CHAPTER XXI.
Brahman said: That unperceived (principle), all-pervading, everlasting, and immutable, which is in a state of equilibrium, should be understood (to become) the city of nine portals, consisting of three qualities, and five
"Namely, how they are all manifestations of the Brahman, and are all dissolved in it. Cf. inter alia Gitá, pp. 74, 92.
• See the Kalhopanishad, p. 149. See also p. 33a infra. • See p. 313, note 3 supra. • I. e. the mind. Cf. Gitá, p. 102. Viz. smell, sound, &c.
• Tranquillity, self-restraint, &c., Arguna Misra. Are they not rather the three qualities? As to twenty-four plus one' above, sec p. 368.
Does this mean the senses, as at Gitá, p. 123? An accurate understanding of the things noted requires a knowledge of their relation to the supreme, which is the means of final cmancipation. And see p. 337 infra.
• See Ghå, p. 107, and Skökhya-sära, p. 11, and note 2, p. 331 infra
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