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 XXVII, 7.
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Chapter XXVII.
Brahman said: From egoism, verily, were the five great elements born-earth, air, space, water, and light as the fifth. In these five great elements, in the operations of (perceiving) sound, touch, colour, taste, and smell, creatures are deluded? When, at the termination of the destruction of the great elements, the final dissolution approaches, O talented one! a great danger for all living beings arises. Every entity is dissolved into that from which it is produced. They are born one from the other, and are dissolved in the reverse order. Then when every entity, movable or immovable, has been dissolved, the talented men who possess a (good) memory * are not dissolved at all. Sound, touch, and likewise colour, taste, and smell as the fifth; the operations (connected with these) have causes , and are inconstant, and their name is delusion. Caused by the production of avarice, not different from one another", and insignificant, connected with flesh and blood, and depending upon one another,
"The contact of the objects of sense with the senses is the source of delusion.
• Cf. Gitá, p. 107, and note i there. . Cf. Sankhya-s@tra I, 121, and p. 387 infra. • I.e. knowledge of the truth, Arguna Misra.
. Hence, as they have a beginning, they also must have an end, and hence they are inconstant.
• This and following epithets expand the idea of inconstancy.
• Being all in substance connected with the Prakriti, the material world, so to say.
• Containing no reality, Nilakantha.
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