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Highest Brahman, and in it there is the triad? The Highest Brahman is the safe support, it is imperishable. The Brahma-students, when they have known what is within this (world), are devoted and merged in the Brahman, free from birth 3. : 8. The Lord (isa) supports all this together, the perishable and the imperishable, the developed and the undeveloped. The (living) self, not being a lord, is bound“, because he has to enjoy the fruits of works); but when he has known the god (deva), he is freed from all fetters.
9. There are two, one knowing (isvara), the other not-knowing (giva), both unborn, one strong, the other weak5; there is she, the unborn, through whom each man receives the recompense of his works 6; and there is the infinite Self (appearing) under all forms, but himself inactive. When a man. finds out these three, that is Brahma?
10. That which is perishable 8 is the Pradhâna' (the first), the immortal and imperishable is Hara 10.
1 The subject (bhoktri), the object (bhogya), and the mover (preritri), see verse 12.
* B. has Vedavido, those who know the Vedas. 3 Tasmin pralîyate tv âtmâ samâdhih sa udâhritah. 4 Read badhyate for budhyate.
6 The form îsanîsau is explained as khândasa; likewise brahmam for brahma.
. Cf. Svet. Up. IV, 5, bhuktabhogyâm.
? The three are (1) the lord, the personal god, the creator and ruler; (2) the individual soul or souls; and (3) the power of creation, the devâtmasakti of verse 3. All three are contained in Brahman; see verses 7, 12. So 'pi mâyî paramesvaro mâyopâdhisannidhes tadvân iva.
& See verse 8.
• The recognised name for Prakriti, or here Devâtmasakti, in the later Sânkhya philosophy.
10 Hara, one of the names of Siva or Rudra, is here explained as
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