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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BRIHADARANYAKA-UPÁNISHAD."
skin is, and who pulls (rules) the skin within, he is thy Self, the puller (ruler) within, the immortal.'
22. “He who dwells in knowledge 1, and within knowledge, whom knowledge does not know, whose body knowledge is, and who pulls (rules) knowledge within, he is thy Self, the puller (ruler) within, the immortal.'
23. ! He who dwells in the seed, and within the seed, whom the seed does not know, whose body the seed is, and who pulls (rules) the seed within, he is thy Self, the puller (ruler) within, the immortal; unseen, but seeing; unheard, but hearing; unperceived, but perceiving; unknown, but knowing. There is no other seer but he, there is no other hearer but he, there is no other perceiver but he, there is no other knower but he. This is thy Self, the ruler within, the immortal. Everything else is of evil.' After that Uddâlaka Aruni held his peace.
Eighth BRÂHMANA 2. 1. Then Vâkaknavi s said: 'Venerable Brâhmanas, I shall ask him two questions. If he will answer them, none of you, I think, will defeat him in any argument concerning Brahman.
Yâgñavalkya said: 'Ask, O Gârgi.'
2. She said: 'O Yâgñavalkya, as the son of a warrior from the Kâsis or Videhas might string his loosened bow, take two pointed foe-piercing arrows in his hand and rise to do battle, I have risen to
* Self, i.e. the individual Self, according to the Mâdhyandina school; see Deussen, p. 161.
Mâdhyandina text, p. 1075. : Gârgî, not the wife of Yâgñavalkya.
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