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out again, but wherever we taste (the water) it is salt,—thus verily, O Maitreys, does this great Being, endless, unlimited, consisting of nothing but knowledge1, rise from out these elements, and vanish again in them. When he has departed, there is no more knowledge (name), I say, O Maitreyi.' Thus spoke Yagñavalkya.
13. Then Maitreyi said: 'Here thou hast bewildered me, Sir, when thou sayest that having departed, there is no more knowledge.'
But Yâgñavalkya replied: 'O Maitreyî, I say nothing that is bewildering. This is enough, O beloved, for Pwisdom. pFor when there is as it were duality, then one. sees the other, one smells the other, one hears the other 4, one salutes the other 5, one perceives the other, one knows the other; but when the Self only is all this, how should he smell another', how should he see 8 another, how should he hear 10 another, how should he salute 11 another, how should he perceive another 12, how should he know another? How should he know Him by whom he knows all this?
1 As a mass of salt has neither inside nor outside, but is altogether a mass of taste, thus indeed has that Self neither inside nor outside, but is altogether a mass of knowledge. B.
2 Here, Sir, thou hast landed me in utter bewilderment. Indeed, I do not understand him.' B. P : Verily, beloved, that Self is imperishable, and of an indestructible nature. B.
4 B. inserts, one tastes the other. 6 B. inserts, one hears the other. 6 B. inserts, one touches the other.
* See, B. 8 Smell, B.
9 B. inserts taste. 10 Salute, B.
11 Hear, B. 12 B. inserts, how should he touch another?
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |