Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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I ADHYÂYA, I PÂDA, I.
thinks of himself (his Self) as stout, lean, fair, as standing, walking, or jumping. Attributes of the sense-organs, if he thinks 'I am mute, or deaf, or one-eyed, or blind.' Attributes of the internal organ when he considers himself subject to desire, intention, doubt, determination, and so on. Thus the producer of the notion of the Ego (i.e. the internal organ) is superimposed on the interior Self, which, in reality, is the witness of all the modifications of the internal organ, and vice versâ the interior Self, which is the witness of everything, is superimposed on the internal organ, the senses, and so on. In this way there goes on this natural beginning-and endless superimposition, which appears in the form of wrong conception, is the cause of individual souls appearing as agents and enjoyers (of the results of their actions), and is observed by every one.
With a view to freeing one's self from that wrong notion which is the cause of all evil and attaining thereby the knowledge of the absolute unity of the Self the study of the Vedânta-texts is begun. That all the Vedanta-texts have the mentioned purport we shall show in this so-called Sârîraka-mîmâmsal
Of this Vedânta-mimâmsâ about to be explained by us the first Satra is as follows.
1. Then therefore the enquiry into Brahman.
The word 'then' is here to be taken as denoting immediate consecution; not as indicating the introduction of a new subject to be entered upon; for the enquiry into Brahman (more literally, the desire of knowing Brahman) is not of that nature?. Nor has the word 'then' the sense
1 The Mimâmsa, i.e. the enquiry whose aim it is to show that the embodied Self, i.e. the individual or personal soul is one with Brahman. This Mîmâmsâ being an enquiry into the meaning of the Vedanta-portions of the Veda, it is also called Vedânta-mîmâmsa.
* Nadhikârârtha iti. Tatra hetur brahmeti. Asyârthah, kim ayam athasabdo brahmagñânekkhâyâh kim vântarnîtavikârasya athavekkhâviseshanagñanasyarambhârthah. Nadyah tasyâ mimâm. sápravartikâyâs tadapravartyatvad anârabhyatvat tasyâs kottaratra
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