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RITUAL 2. "The sacrificer is the animal” (Sp. Br xi. 1. 8.) ... 3. "The animal is ultimately the sacrificer himself"
(Tait. Br. 11. 2. 8. 2). 4. "The sacrificer is indeed the sacrifice" (Tait.
Br. 1, 28). In the symbolical speech of the Hindus, “The ten sepses are the sacrificers, their objects are the
sacrificial stuffs, and burning their stuffs away is the sacrifice. The ten senses, or the Devas, are the ten fires. Chita (mind) is the sacrificial ladle and the sacred knowledge is the wealth atilised?....... Tamas is smoke and
Rajas its ashes. "The secret of yoga.yegna is this. There are four sacri
ficers to be known. The five senses, mind and intellect make up the seven causes or Karmas. Their actions constitute the Karma. The Ego underlying these is the doer or Karta. When one is attached to these seven, the good and bad affect him, otherwise they become the real sources for moksha or emancipatiou" (The Permanent History of Bharat Varsha, vol. ii. pp. 638 and 639, and
for the original Sanskrit quotations, pp. 634 to 636). According to the Chbandogya Upanishad (chap. 41. 17): "Austerity, charity, simplicity, ahimsa and truthfuluess form his fee (let the aspirant acquire these by self-sacrifice)."
It was, thus, the sacrifice of desires that yana signified, not the cruel slaughtering of poor helpless dumb animals whose blood could only go to form a hard encrustation of evil karma about the sacrificer's own
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