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 XXVIII, 42.
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symbols. Therefore the characteristic of the Kshetragña, which is void of symbols', is purely knowledge. The unperceived is stated to be the Kshetra in which the qualities are produced and absorbed. And I always see, know, and hear it, (though) concealed. The Purusha knows it, therefore is he called Kshetragña:. And the Kshetragña likewise perceives all the operations of the qualities“. The qualities created again and again, do not know themselves', being nonintelligent, to be created and tied down to a beginning, middle, and end'. Only the Kshetragña attains, no one (else) attains, to the truth, which is great, transcendent, and beyond the qualities and the entities (produced): from the qualities. Hence a man who understands piety, abandoning qualities, and the creation', in this world, and transcending the qualities, and having his sins destroyed, then enters into the Kshetragña. One who is free from the pairs of opposites, free from the ceremony of salutations, and
See Sanatsugáttya, p. 146. See also p. 309 supra. · See Gitá, p. 102 seq. 'Le. he who knows the Kshetra. • Enlightenment, activity, and delusion, Nilakantha.
• I. c. do not know the self, Nflakantha; better, I think, the qualities do not know themselves, only the Kshetragia knows them.' Cf. Sånti Parvan (Moksha Dharma), chap. 194, st. 41.
• 1.c. production, existence, and destruction, Nilakantha. This must, however, mean their manifestation, continuance, and dissolution in any particular form. For the prakriti, which is made up of the three qualities, is beginningless. Cf. Gitá, p. 104.
* I. c. the actual physical manifestations, as we may say, of the qualitics
• The original, sattva, Nilakantha renders by buddhi, and qualities by visible objects. In the familiar Sankhya phrase sattvapurushinyatåpratyaya sativa means creation, or what is Other than purusha (cf. Sankhyatattvakaumudf, pp. 9-144). That is the meaning here. See too p. 371 infra, and Sinti Parvan (Moksha Dharma), chap. 194, st. 38 seq. and comments there.
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