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know, believe him to be Brahman; I who am immortal, believe him to be immortal.
18. “They who know the life of life, the eye of the eye, the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, they have comprehended the ancient, primeval Brahman'.
19. By the mind alone it is to be perceived ?, there is in it no diversity. He who perceives therein any diversity, goes from death to death.
20. This eternal being that can never be proved, is to be perceived in one way only; it is spotless, beyond the ether, the unborn Self, great and eternal.
21. 'Let a wise Brâhmana, after he has discovered him, practise wisdom. Let him not seek after many words, for that is mere weariness of the tongue.
22. 'And he is that great unborn Self, who consists of knowledge, is surrounded by the Pranas, the ether within the heart". In it there reposes the ruler of all, - the lord of all, the king of all. He does not become greater by good works, nor smaller by evil works. He is the lord of all, the king of all things, the protector of all things. He is a bank 5 and a boundary, so that these worlds may not be confounded. Brâhmanas seek to know him by the study of the Veda, by sacrifice, by gifts, by penance, by fasting, and he who knows him, becomes a Muni. Wishing for that world (for Brahman) only, mendicants leave their homes.
Knowing this, the people of old did not wish for offspring. What shall we do with offspring, they said,
1 See Talavak. Up. I, 2. * See Katha Up. IV, 10-11.
* Let him practise abstinence, patience, &c., which are the means of knowledge. • See Brih. Up. IV, 3, 7.
See Khând. Up. VIII, 4. N 2
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