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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MAITRAYANA-BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD.
Downward or upward is his course1, and overcome by the pairs (distinction between hot and cold, pleasure and pain, &c.) he roams about?.'
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2. Pragâpati Kratu replied: 'There is indeed that other different one, called the elemental Self (Bhûtâtmâ), who, overcome by bright and dark fruits of action, enters on a good or bad birth: downward or upward is his course, and overcome by the pairs he roams about. And this is his explanation: The five Tanmâtrâs (sound, touch, form, taste, smell) are called Bhûta; also the five Mahâbhûtas (gross elements) are called Bhûta. Then the aggregate of all these is called sarira, body". And lastly he of whom it was said that he dwelt in the body', he is called Bhûtâtmâ, the elemental Self. Thus his immortal Self is like a drop of water on a lotus leaf, and he himself is overcome by the qualities of nature. Then 10, because he is thus overcome, he becomes bewildered, and because he is bewildered, he saw not the creator, the holy Lord, abiding within himself. Carried along by the waves of the qualities 11, darkened in his imaginations, unstable, fickle,
1 M. reads here and afterwards avâkam ûrdhvam vâ gatidvandvaih. 2 M. adds at the end, paribhramatîti katama esha iti, tân hovâketi, and leaves it out at the end of § 2.
3 M. here reads avara.
4 M. reads tanmâtrâni. M. reads teshâm samudayas takkharîram.
The commentator distinguishes between linga-sarfra, consisting of prânas, indriyas, the antahkarana, and the sûkshmabhûtas; and the sthûla-sarîra, consisting of the five Mahâbhûtas.
7 M. reads sarîram ity uktam.
• M. reads athâsti tasyâh bindur iva.
It sticks to it, yet it can easily run off again.
10 M. reads Ato, and the commentator explains atho by atah kâranât, adding sandhih khândasah.
11 See VI, 30.
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