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 XXVI, 2.
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these being emancipated, attain greatness. And the talented man who understands that high and holy goal, the great self', he among all people comes not by delusion. The self-existent Vishnu is the Lord in the primary creations'. And he who thus knows the lord lying in the cave", the transcendent, ancient being, of universal form, and golden', the highest goal of those possessed of understanding, that talented man, abides transcending the understanding.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Brahman said : That Mahat which was first produced, is (afterwards) called egoism; when it is born as (the feeling itself) ?I, that is said to be the second creation. That egoism is stated to be the source of all entities,
' I.e., says Arguna Misra, the world of the understanding. Docs this mean the world of Hiranyagarbha? The understanding is said to be the 'subtle body' of Hiranyagarbha (Vedânia Paribbâsha, p. 46). Probably the reference spiritually interpreted is to the state in which egoism and all its products are non-existent.
· Literally, the high and holy passage to the great self.'
"The Mahat first manifests itself as Vishnu before it manifests itself as Brahman or Siva (Sankhya-sära, p. 16), hence he is said to be the Lord in the primary creation. It may be added, that in the Sårkhya-sâra where this passage is quoted the original word rcodered cognition' above (khyâri) does not occur, but in lieu of it occurs Brahman. The sentence. And the talented man' &c. is also wanting there.
• I.e. the understanding. See Sankara on Svetåsvatara, p. 329; Kasha, p. 100.
• Source of enlightenment, Arguna Misra. Cf. Mundake, pp. 303308 (gloss).
• I.e. attaching himself to the Purusha, as the never-changing reality, and rising above Prakriti and its manifestations.
' I. c. when the Mahat develops into the feeling of self-consciousDess-1-then it assumes the name of egoism.
. See on this Sankhya-sära, Hall's Introd. p. 31, note.
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