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, 46.
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and who looks alike on everything! I have now declared everything to you, O best of Brahmara sages! Act thus forthwith; then you will acquire perfection.
The preceptor said: Thus instructed by the preceptor Brahman, those high-souled sages acted accordingly, and then attained to the worlds. Do you, too, O noble person, of pure self! duly act according to the words of Brahman which I have stated. Then will you attain perfection.
Vasudeva said : That pupil thus instructed in the highest piety by the preceptor, did everything (accordingly), O son of Kunti! and then attained final emancipation. And the pupil, having done all he should have done, attained to that seat, О supporter of the family of the Kauravas! going to which one grieves not'.
Arguna said: Who, indeed, was that Brahmana, O Krishna ! and who the pupil, O Ganârdana! If this verily is fit to be heard by me, O Lord! then tell it me.
Vasudeva said: I am the preceptor, O you of mighty arms! and
See inter alia Gitá, pp. 68-70. '1c., I presume, Bhồr and the rest. But see also Khandogya, Pp. 372, 541, 620, and Brihadåranyaka, pp. 303, 608.
· See p. 385 supra, and cf. inter alia Khåndogya, p. 550.
• I.e. I, the Kshetragna, am the preceptor, and the mind is that which has to be taught. This shows that one's instructor must be oneself, Nilakantha. Arguna Mista says, 'I am the preceptor, the mind is the pupil. The meaning of this is that anybody who has not acquired knowledge is treated here as a pupil; there is no other special pupil intended.' Cf. also p. 310 supra.
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