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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III ADHYAYA, 9 BRAHMANA, 13.
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ciple of every (living) self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yagnavalkya.'
Yagñavalkya said: 'I know that person, the principle of every self, of whom thou speakest. This corporeal (material, earthy) person, "he is he." But tell me1, Sâkalya, who is his devatâ ' (deity)?'
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Sâkalya replied: "The Immortal3.'
11. Sâkalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is love (a body capable of sensual love), whose sight is the heart, whose mind is light,— the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yâgnavalkya.'
Yagnavalkya replied: 'I know that person, the principle of every self, of whom thou speakest. This love-made (loving) person, "he is he." But tell me, Sakalya, who is his devatâ ?'
Sâkalya replied: 'The women.'
12. Sâkalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling are the colours, whose sight is the eye, whose mind is light, the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yâgñavalkya.'
Yagñavalkya replied: 'I know that person, the principle of every self, of whom thou speakest. That person in the sun, "he is he." But tell me, Sâkalya, who is his devatâ ?'
Sâkalya replied: 'The True".'
13. Sakalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person Comm.
1 Ask me.
That from which he is produced, that is his devatâ. Comm. 8 According to the commentator, the essence of food, which produces blood, from which the germ receives life and becomes an embryo and a living being.
* Because they excite the fire of love. Comm.
eye,
The commentator explains satya, the true, by the the sun owes its origin to the eye.
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