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BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
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desire as the Atigrâha, for with the mind one desires desires.'
8. The arms are one Graha, and these are seized by work as the Atigrâha, for with the arms one works work.'
9. “The skin is one Graha, and that is seized by. touch as the Atigrâha, for with the skin one perceives touch. These are the eight Grahas and the eight Atigrahas.
10. Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'everything is the food of death. What then is the deity to whom death is food ?'
Fire (agni) is death, and that is the food of water. Death is conquered again.'
11. 'Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'when such a person (a sage) dies, do the vital breaths (prânas) move out of him or no ?'
No,' replied Yagñavalkya ; 'they are gathered up in him, he swells, he is inflated, and thus inflated the dead lies at rest.'
12. 'Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'when such a man dies, what does not leave him ?' p.The name,' he replied ; 'for the name is endless, the Visvedevas are endless, and by it he gains the endless world.
13. “Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'when the speech of this dead person enters into the fire?, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing into space, into the earth the body, into the ether the self, into the shrubs the hairs of the body, into the trees the hairs of the head, when the
1 The commentator explains purusha here by asamyagdarsin, one who does not know the whole truth. See also Deussen, Vedânta, p. 405, and p. 399, note.
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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 |