Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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KATHA-UPANISHAD.
therefore choose now three boons. Hail to thee ! and welfare to me!'
10. Nakiketas said: 'O Death, as the first of the three boons I choose that Gautama, my father, be.. pacified, kind, and free from anger towards me; and .. that he may kinaw-me and..greet me, when I shalt.. have been dismissed by thee.'
11. Yama said: “Through my favour Auddâlaki Aruni, thy father, will know thee, and be again towards thee as he was before. He shall sleep peacefully through the night, and free from anger, after having seen thee freed from the mouth of death.'
12. Nakiketas said: 'In the heaven-world there is no fear; thou art not there, O Death, and no one is t afraid on account of old age. Leaving behind both
hunger and thirst, and out of the reach of sorrow, all rejoice in the world of heaven.'
13. “Thou knowest, O Death, the fire-sacrifice 3) which leade us to heaven; tell it to me, for I am full of faith: Those who live in the heaven-world reach immortality,+-this I ask as my second boon.'
14. Yalnaid: 'I tell it thee, learn it from me, and when thou understandest that fire-sacrifice which leads to heaven, know, O Nakiketas, that it is the attainment of the endless worlds, and their firm support, hidden in darkness?!
15. Yama then told him that fire-sacrifice, the beginning of all the worlds 2, and what bricks are
The commentator translates: "I tell it thee, attend to me who knows the heavenly fire.' Here the nom. sing. of the participle would be very irregular, as we can hardly refer it to bravîmi. Then
Know this fire as a means of obtaining the heavenly world, know that fire as the rest or support of the world, when it assum form of Virág, and as hidden in the heart of men.'
? Sankara: the first embodied, in the shape of Virág.
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