Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.'
sharp shovels; '—the ocean is the mind, the sharp shovel is speech, the offering is the triple science : it is thereto this verse applies. In the mind he settles this (brick).
53. 'In the stream, the seat, I settle thee!' the stream is speech : in speech he settles this one.
54. 'In the abode of the waters I settle thee!' the abode of the waters is the eye, for there water always abides: in the eye he settles this one.
55. 'In the goal of the waters I settle thee!' the goal of the waters is the ear: in the ear he settles this one. Whatever water flowed from those (five) forms of his, that water he now (by these five formulas) puts back into him; and those forms themselves he thereby restores to him.
56. In the seat of the waters I settle thee!' the seat of the waters is the sky, for in the sky the waters are seated : in the sky he settles this one.
57. 'In the home of the waters I settle theel the home of the waters is the air : in the air he settles this one.
58. 'In the womb of the waters I settle thee!' the womb of the waters is the sea : in the sea he settles this one.
59. 'In the sediment of the waters I settle thee!' the sediment (purisha) of the waters is sand: in the sand he settles this one.
60. In the resort of the waters I settle thee!' the resort of the waters is food : in food he settles this one. Whatever water flowed from those (five) forms of his, that water he now (by these five formulas) puts back into him; and those forms themselves he thereby restores to him.
61. ‘By the Gayatri metre I settle theel
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