Book Title: Dhammapada
Author(s): Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ III PRAPATHAKA, 1.. 295 wheel driven by the potter. This body is made intelligent, and he is the driver thereof. This is indeed the Self, who seeming to be filled with desires, and seeming to be overcome by bright or dark fruits of action, wanders about in every body (himself remaining free). Because he is not manifest, because he is infinitely small, because he is invisible, because he cannot be grasped, because he is attached to nothing, therefore he, seeming to be changing, an agent in that which is not (prakriti), is in reality not an agent and unchanging. He is pure, firm, stable, undefiled 3, unmoved, free from desire, remaining a spectator, resting in himself. Having concealed himself in the cloak of the three qualities he appears as the enjoyer of rita, as the enjoyer of rita (of his good works).' THIRD PRAPATHAKA. 1. The Vâlakhilyas said to Pragâpati Kratu : O Saint, if thou thus showest the greatness of that Self, then who is that other different one, also called Self“, who really overcome by bright and dark fruits of action, enters on a good or bad birth? 1 M. reads: Sa vâ esha âtmeti hosann iva sitâsitaih. This seems better than usanti kavayah, which hardly construes. 8 M. reads abhibhūyamânay iva, which again is better than anabhibhùta iva, for he seems to be overcome, but is not, just as he seems to be an agent, but is not. See also III, 1. 3 M. has alepo. • The pure Self, called âtmâ, brahma, kinmâtram, pragñânaghanam, &c., after entering what he had himself created, and no longer distinguishing himself from the created things (bhůta), is called Bhûtâtmâ. Digitized by Digitized by Google

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