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MAITRÂYANA-BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD.
and again! Deign therefore to take me out! In this world I am like a frog in a dry well. O Saint, thou art my way, thou art my way.'
SECOND PRAPÂTHAKA.
1. Then the Saint Sâkâyanya, well pleased, said to the King : Great King Brihadratha, thou banner of the race of Ikshvâku, quickly obtaining a knowledge of Self, thou art happy, and art renowned by the name of Marut, the wind. This indeed is thy Self 2'
Which 3, O Saint,' said the King. Then the Saint said to him :
2. 'He * who, without stopping the out-breathing, proceeds upwards (from the sthala to the sukshma sarîra), and who, modified (by impressions), and yet not modified, drives away the darkness (of error), he is the Self. Thus said the Saint Maitri?' And Sâkâyanya said to the King Brihadratha: 'He who in perfect rest, rising from this body (both from the sthûla and sûkshma), and reaching the highest
1 Prishadasva in the Veda is another name of the Maruts, the storm gods. Afterwards the king is called Marut, VI, 30.
2 This sentence is called a Sætra by the commentator to VI, 32. 8 M. reads Kathaya me katamo bhavân iti. * M. leaves out atha.
• One might read âvishtambhanena, in the sense of while preventing the departure of the vital breath, as in the Brih. Âr. VI, 3, prânena rakshann avaram kulâyam.
6 M. reads vyathamâno 'vyathamânas.
? M. leaves out Maitrih-ity evam hyâha. The commentator explains Maitrir by mitrâyâ apatyam rishir maitrir maitreya. In a later passage (II, 3) M. reads Bhagavatâ Maitrena, likewise the Anubhûtiprakâsa.
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