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VI PRAPATHAKA, 35.
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Adoration to Âditya, the dweller in heaven, who remembers his world. Grant that world to this thy worshipper!
Adoration to Brahman, who dwells everywhere, who remembers all. Grant all to this thy worshipper!
The mouth of the true (Brahman) is covered with a golden lid; open that, O Pushan (sun), that we may go to the true one, who pervades all (Vishnu)”.
He who is the person in the sun, I am he?.
And what is meant by the true one is the essence of the sun, that which is bright, personal, sexless 3 ; a portion (only) of the light which pervades the ether; which is, as it were, in the midst of the sun, and in the eye, and in the fire. That is Brahman, that is immortal, that is splendour.
That is the true one, a portion (only) of the light which pervades the ether, which is in the midst of the sun, the immortal, of which Soma (the moon) and the vital breaths also are offshoots : that is Brahman, that is immortal, that is splendour.
That is the true one, a portion (only) of the light which pervades the ether, which in the midst of the sun shines as Yagus, viz. as Om, as 'water, light, essence, immortal, Brahman, Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svar, Om.
*The eight-footed“, the bright, the swan, bound
1 The verse occurs in a more original form in Tal. Up. 15. 9 The commentator adds iti after aham.
Khând. Up. I, 6, 6; Svet. Up. V, 10. • The eight feet are explained as the eight regions, or aroga and the rest. The swan is the sun. The three threads are the three Vedas; see Kal. Up. I, 1; Ind. Stud. IX, 11-ashtapâdam sukir hamsam trisâtram manim avyayam, dvivartamânam taigasaiddham
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