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15. He also was in time the guardian of this world, the lord of all, hidden in all beings. In him the Brahmarshis and the deities are united”, and he who knows him cuts the fetters of death asunder.
16. He who knows Siva (the blessed) hidden in all beings, like the subtile film that rises from out the clarified butter, alone enveloping everything, - he who knows the god, is freed from all fetters.
17. That god, the maker of all things, the great Self“, always dwelling in the heart of man, is perceived by the heart, the soul, the mind 5 ;—they who know it become immortal.
18. When the light has risen®, there is no day, no night, neither existence nor non-existence?; Siva (the blessed) alone is there. That is the eternal, the adorable light of Savitri 8,—and the ancient wisdom proceeded thence.
19. No one has grasped him above, or across, or in the middle. There is no image of him whose name is Great Glory.
20. His form cannot be seen, no one perceives him with the eye. Those 10 who through heart and
1 In former ages, Sankara.
? Because both the Brahmarshis, the holy seers, and the deities find their true essence in Brahman.
8 We should say, like cream from milk. * Or the high-minded. o See III, 13. 6 Atamas, no darkness, i.e. light of knowledge.
See on the difficulty of translating sat and asat, rò őv and tò uń őv, the remarks in the Preface.
8 Referring to the Gâyatrî, Rig-veda III, 62, 10; see also Svet. Up. V, 4.
See Muir, Metrical Translations, p. 198; Maitr. Up. VI, 17. 10 B. reads hridâ manîshâ manasâbhiklipto, yat tad vidur; A. hridi hridistham manasaya enam evam vidur.
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