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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ANUGÎT.
that from which the changes take place ?; it is full of light, the supporter of consciousness; it is that from which the people are produced, the Pragâpati, It is a deity, the producer of the deities, and of the mind; it is the creator of the three worlds. That which feels 2 thus— I am all this'- is called (by) that (name). That eternal world is for those sages who are contented with knowledge relating to the self, who have pondered on the self, and who are perfected by sacred study and sacrifice. By: consciousness of self one enjoys the qualities, and thus that source of all entities, the producer of the entities, creates (them): and as that from which the changes take place, it causes all this to move; and by its own light, it likewise charms the world.
i So Arguna Misra. Nilakantha says it means 'born from the change, or development, viz. Mahat.' The Sankhya-sára, p. 17, however, shows it means 'appertaining to the quality of goodness' See also Sankhya-kariká 25, and commentary there, which is of great help here. The sense is this: Egoism is of three descriptions ; it appertains to the quality of goodness, and as such is the creator of the deities and mind, the deities being those presiding over the ten senses (cf. Sankhya-sára, p. 17); it is full of light, or apper. tains to the quality of passion (cf. ibid.), and as such imparts to the other two qualities their virtue of activity (cf. Sankhya-karika commentary, p. 91, Târânâth's ed.); it is also of the quality of darkness, and as such the producer of the triple world (see ibid.) See Sankhya-sätra II, 17, 18, and comment, where a view somewhat different in one or two details is stated.
• Sânkhya-sâra, p. 16; Sankhya-kårikå 24, p. 89 (Târânath's ed.)
• Arguna Misra says that the words Ahankâra &c. are here exo plained ; qualities here means objects, as at Gfrá, p. 55. The meaning of the first clause is, that the feeling that the objects are for oneself, and therefore enjoying them, gives the name of Ahankina to the principle in question; its creation of all the elements gives it the name of BhQrádi. It is called Vaikärika, as the cause of the various activities and developments going on. The last clause seems to be an explanation of the cpithet Taigasa, also applied to cgoism.
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