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BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
9. 'And as the sounds of a conch-shell, when blown, cannot be seized externally (by themselves), but the sound is seized, when the shell is seized, or the blower of the shell;
10. ‘And as the sounds of a lute, when played, cannot be seized externally (by themselves), but the sound is seized, when the lute is seized, or the player of the lute;
11. 'As clouds of smoke proceed by themselves out of lighted fire kindled with damp fuel, thus verily, O Maitreyi, has been breathed forth from this great Being what we have as Rig-veda, Yagurveda, Sâma-veda, Atharvângirasas, Itihâsa, Purâna, Vidyâ, the Upanishads, Slokas, Satras, Anuvyâkhyânas, Vyâkhyânas, what is sacrificed, what is poured out, food, drink', this world and the other world, and all creatures. From him alone all these were breathed forth.
12. “As all waters find their centre in the sea, all touches in the skin, all tastes in the tongue, all smells in the nose, all colours in the eye, all sounds in the ear, all percepts in the mind, all knowledge in the heart, all actions in the hands, all movements in the feet, and all the Vedas in speech, -
13. ‘As a mass of salt has neither inside nor outside, but is altogether a mass of taste, thus indeed has that Self neither inside nor outside, but is altogether a mass of knowledge; and having risen from out these elements, vanishes again in them. When he has departed, there is no more knowledge (name), I say, O Maitreyi,'—thus spoke Yagñavalkya.
1 Explained by annadânanimittam and peyadânanimittam dharmagâtam. See before, IV, 1, 2.
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