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 XXXVI, 34.
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of qualities. Two syllables' are death; three syllables the eternal Brahman. Mine is death, and not mine is the eternal). Some men of dull understandings extol action. But as to the high-souled ancients they do not extol actions. By action a creature is born with a body and made up of the sixteen.. Knowledge brings forth the being, and that is acceptable and constitutes immortality. Therefore those who are far-sighted have no attachment to actions. This being is stated to be full of knowledge, not full of action. The self-restrained man who thus understands the immortal, changeless, incomprehensible, and ever indestructible and unattached (principle), he dies not?. He who thus understands the self to which there is nothing prior, which is uncreated, changeless, unmoving, which is incomprehensible (even) to those who feed on nectar, he certainly becomes immortal' and not to be restrained', in consequence of these means 10.
* See Sånti Parvan (Rågadharma) XIII, 4. Cf. Maitrf, p. 180. This means the two and three syllables of'mama' and 'na mama,' mine and not mine. Cf. Bribadåranyaka, p. 970, and Khandogya, p. 118, and p. 548, for a similar conceit.
• Final emancipation follows on abandoning the idea of mine;' bondage on harbouring it.
See Mundaka, p. 379. • The eleven organs and the five great elements which go to form the body. See Sankhya-kårikå 3, and comment thereon ; Sânti Parvan, chap. 210, st. 32 seq.; chap. 242, st. 7 seq.; Prasna, p. 330.
• I. c. shows. • Cl. Gfå, p. 118; Sånti Parvan, ch. 247, st. 15. 'See p. 367 supra, note 6; and cf. Kasha, pp. 155, 156.
• I.e. which remains unconcerned, cf. Isa, p. 10. Apärvam (to which there is nothing prior), Arguna Misra renders by'not familiarly known,' and Nilakantha by not understood by any other means of knowledge.' See also Brihadaranyaka, p. 502, and Sankara on that.
• This is not very clear, but I suppose the meaning to be the same as that of unconquerable at p. 161, and see R. 231.
I.e. the means mentioned further on, says Nflakantha.
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