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SVETASVATARA-UPANISHAD.
SIXTH ADHYÂYA.
1!. Some wise men, deluded, speak of Nature, and others of Time (as the cause of everything?); but it is the greatness of God by which this Brahma-wheel is made to turn.
2. It is at the command of him who always covers this world, the knower, the time of time 3, who assumes qualities and all knowledge, it is at his command that this work (creation) unfolds itself, which is called earth, water, fire, air, and ether;
36. He who, after he has done that work and rested again, and after he has brought together one essence (the self) with the other (matter), with one, two, three, or eight, with time also and with the subtile qualities of the mind,
4. Who, after starting the works endowed with (the three) qualities, can order all things, yet when, in the absence of all these, he has caused the destruction of the work, goes on, being in truth? different (from all he has produced);
1 See Muir, Metrical Translations, p. 198. 3 See before, I, 2.
8 The destroyer of time. Vigñânâtman reads kálakâlo, and explains it by kalasya niyantâ, upahartâ. Sankarananda explains kâlah sarvavinâsakârî, tasyâpi vinâsakarah. See also verse 16.
4 Or sarvavid yah. . Instead of vinivartya, Vigñânâtman and Sankarananda read vinivritya.
* Âruhya for árabhya, Sankarananda.
? These two verses are again extremely obscure, and the explanations of the commentators throw little light on their real, original meaning. To begin with Sankara, he assumes the subject to be the same as he at whose command this work unfolds itself, and explains
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