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 XXXII, 17.
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eternal; a tree which is produced from the unperceived as the seed, which consists of the understanding as its trunk, whose collection of boughs is the great egoism, the sprouts within which are the senses, the great branches of which are the great elements, and the side branches the objects of sense, which is always possessed of leaves, always possessed of flowers, in which agreeable and disagreeable fruits are always produced, and which is fed upon by all creatures. Cutting and piercing this (tree) with the sword of knowledge of the truth, and abandoning the bonds in the shape of attachment, which cause birth, death, and old age', a wise man who is free from (the thought that this or that is) mine, and who is devoid of egoism, is emancipated, there is no doubt of that. There are these two birds, (which are) unchanging, and which should also be known to be unintelligent. But as to that other who is above them, he is called intelligent. (When) the inner self, devoid of knowledge of nature, and (as it were) non-intelligento, understands that which is
· Cr. Gfia, p. III; and Mundaka, p. 307, and commentary there.
• So I render the original, though the sense at first sight appears to be which are caused by birth,' &c.
• Viz. the understanding and egoism, which dwell in the tree,' Arguna Misra. Nilakantha says, 'the great and the individual self.'
• Cr. Sankhya-kårikå 11, and comment of Vikaspati Misra. The self is not unintelligent; and as the birds are so described, they must stand for some manifestation of Prakriti, which understanding and cgoism are. Otherwise bird' does stand for 'sell.' Sec p. 189 supra.
• The original word bere is sativa, on which see p. 351 supra Arguna Misra renders it here by Prakrili.
• So Nilakantha; "the only intelligent principle, '-- Arguna Mista. On Nflakantha's interpretation ‘inner self' must be the same thing as Bhatátman at Maiuri, p. 41.
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