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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ANUGÎTÂ.
Expelling all impressions', and restraining the seli in the self?, he understands that holy Brahman. than which nothing greater exists. And when the understanding is clear, he attains tranquillityø. And the nature of tranquillity is as when one sees a dream. This is the goal of those emancipated ones who are intent on knowledge. And they see all the movements which are produced by develop ment. This is the goal of those who are indifferent (to the world). This is the eternal piety. This is what is acquired by men of knowledge. This is the uncensured (mode of conduct. This goal can be reached by one who is alike to all beings!, who is without attachment, who is without expectations,
· Impressions from external causes. Cl. inter alia Sankhya-sâtra III, 83 ; see, too, pp, 247-358 supra and notes there.
' I.e. restraining the mind in the locus-like heart, Nilakanila. Cf. as to this, pp. 248, 372 inter alia.
Cf. Gitá, p. 61. See also Maitri-upanishad, p. 176, and Murdaka, P. 314.
• Arguna Misra says, “The pature of tranquillity is this, that in that state you perceive everything to be unreal like what is seen in a dream.' Nilakantha says, 'The nature of tranquillity is this, that in that state the self abides without attachment to the body, and any external objects, but working within itself as in a dream.' But se on tliis Katha, p. 147.
6 Viz. tranquillity, Nilakantha.
• I. e., says Nilakantha, they see all worldly objects past and future. Arguna Misra, 'They see the actions performed for some wealth and so forth. I am not satisfied with either meaning. Arguna Misra's is besides based on a reading different from that adopted in the text, namely, Parimanagâh, instead of Parizimagih. I think parinâma' is the development which, according to ibe Sankhya philosophy, produces the universe, and the movements are the actions which that development-namely, here the activity of egoism and its products-occasions. Cl. as to some extent supporting this, Säökhya-sära, p. 16.
See inter alia Gila, pp. 68-70.
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