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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MAITRÂYANA-BRÂHMANA-UPANISHAD.
They said: 'O Saint, How has this been made intelligent by such a being as this which has no desires ?, and how is he its driver?' He answered them and said:
5. “That Self which is very small, invisible, incomprehensible, called Purusha, dwells of his own will here in part?; just as a man who is fast asleep awakes of his own will 3. And this part (of the Self) which is entirely intelligent, reflected in man (as the sun in different vessels of water), knowing the body (kshetragña), attested by his conceiving, willing, and believing 4, is Pragâpati (lord of creatures), called Visva. By him, the intelligent, is this body made intelligent, and he is the driver thereof.'
They said to him: 'O Saint 5, if this has been made intelligent by such a being as this, which has no desires, and if he is the driver thereof, how was it?' He answered them and said :
6. 'In the beginning Pragâpati (the lord of creatures) stood alone. He had no happiness, when alone.. Meditating on himself, he created many
1 The reading anishthena is explained by the commentator as free from any local habitation or attachment. He also mentions the various readings anishtena, free from wishes, and anishthena, the smallest. M. reads anikkhena, and this seems better than anishtena. The Anubhûtiprakâsa reads likewise anikkhasya.
I read buddhipūrvam, and again with M. suptasyeva buddhipûrvam. I also read amsena without iti, as in M. The simile seems to be that a man, if he likes, can wake himself at any time of night, and this if he likes' is expressed by buddhipûrvam. See Anubhûtiprakasa, vv. 67, 68. * M. reads vibodhayati, atha.
See Maitr. Up. V, 2; Cowell's Translation, pp. 246, 256; Vedântaparibhâshâ, ed. A. Venis, in the Pandit, IV, p. 110.
6 M. adds: bhagavann îdrisasya katham amsena vartanam iti tân hovâka.
• M. reads abhidhyâyan.
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