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-UPANISHAD.
whose dwelling is ether, whose sight is the ear, whose mind is light,—the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yagñavalkya.'
Yâgñavalkya replied: 'I know that person, the principle of every self, of whom thou speakest. The person who hears and answers, “he is he." But tell me, Sâkalya, who is his devatâ ?'
Sâkalya replied : 'Space.'
14. Sâkalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is darkness, whose sight is the heart, whose mind is light,—the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yagñavalkya.'
Yâgñavalkya replied: "I know that person, the principle of every self, of whom thou speakest. The shadowy o person," he is he.” But tell me, Sâkalya, who is his devatâ ?'
Sâkalya replied: 'Death.'
15. Sâkalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling are (bright) colours, whose sight is the eye, whose mind is light,—the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yâgñavalkya.'
Yâgñavalkya replied: 'I know that person, the principle of every self, of whom thou speakest. The person in the looking-glass, “he is he.” But tell me, Sâkalya, who is his devatâ ?'
Sâkalya replied: 'Vital breath' (asu).
16. Sâkalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is water, whose sight is the heart, whose mind is light,—the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yâgñavalkya.'
1 Read srautra instead of srotra; see Brih. Âr. Up. II, 5, 6.
? Shadow, khâyâ, is explained here by agñâna, ignorance, not by gñâna, knowledge.
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