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 XXXI, 51.
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expectations, who is free from attachments to any entity, and who is dependent on none', who is attached to the self, and who understands the truth, is emancipated, there is no doubt of that. Those who perceive the self, which is without hands, foot, or back, without a head, without a stomach, which is free from the operations of the qualities, abso lute, untainted, and stable, devoid of smell, devoid of taste or touch, devoid of colour, and also devoid of sound, which is to be understood, which is unattached, and which is also devoid of Aesh, which is free from anxiety“, imperishable, divine, and though dwelling in a house, always dwelling in all entities, they never die'. There the understanding reaches not, nor the senses, nor the deities, nor Vedas, sacrifices, nor worlds’, nor penance, nor valouro; the attainment to it of those who are possessed of knowledge is stated to be without comprehension of symbolso. Therefore the learned man who knows (the) property of being void of symbols 10, being devoted to pious conduct, and
· Cf. Gitá, p. 60. * These are effects of Prakriti by which the Purusha is unaffected. • Literally, 'pursued.'
• This is obscure. Arguna Misra's text is niskityam. Does that mean which should be accurately understood ?' The rendering in the text of Nilakantha's reading may mean that the Brahman has no such thoughts (kinta) as are referred to at Gith, p. 115.
· Does this mean the body? • I.c. are free from birth and death. Cf. Âpastamba 1, 8, 29, 4.
'This, again, is not quite clear. Probably the explanation is to be found in the passage at Gill, p. 79.
• Ntlakariha's reading is observances or vows.' • 1.c. ‘not to be acquired by inference,' Arguna Mista, p. 361 supra.
* See p. 309 supra; who is without symbols, and knows piety,' according to Arguna Misra's reading.
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