Book Title: Grihya Sutras
Author(s): Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 240 VEDÂNTA-SOTRAS. (buddhi) is higher than the mind, since the objects of enjoyment are conveyed to the soul by means of the intellect. Higher than the intellect is the great Self which was repre sented as the lord of the chariot in the passage, Know the Self to be the lord of the chariot.' That the same Self is referred to in both passages is manifest from the repeated use of the word 'Self;' that the Self is superior to intelligence is owing to the circumstance that the enjoyer is naturally superior to the instrument of enjoyment. The Self is appropriately called great as it is the master.Or else the phrase 'the great Sell' may here denote the intellect of the first-born Hiranyagarbha which is the basis of all intellects; in accordance with the following Smritipassage' it is called mind, the great one; reflection, Brahman; the stronghold, intellect; enunciation, the Lord; highest knowledge, consciousness; thought, remembrance ?,' and likewise with the following scriptural passage, 'He (Hiranyagarbha) who first creates Branman and delivers the Vedas to him ' (Svet. Up. VI, 18). The intellect, which in the former passage had been reserred to under its common name buddhi, is here mentioned separately, since it may be represented as superior to our human intellects. On this latter explanation of the term 'the great Self,' we must assume that the personal Self which in the simile had been compared to the charioteer is, in the latter passage, included in the highest person (mentioned last); to which there is no objection, since in reality the personal Self and the highest Self are identical.—Thus there remains now the body only which had before been compared to a chariot. We therefore con 1 Samkalpavikalparūpamananasaktyâ hairanyagarbhî buddhir manas tasyâh vyash/imanahsu samashitaya vyaptim aha mahân ili. Samkalpadisaktita yâ tarhi samdehâtmatvam tatraha matir iti. Mahatvam upapadayati brahmeti. Bhogyagâtâdhâratvam áha pur iti. Niskayâtmakatvam aha buddhir iti. Kirtisaktimattvam aha khyâtir iti. Niyamanasaktimatvam âha îsvara iti. Loke yat prakrishtam gsânam tato: natirekam âha pragñeti. Tatphalam api tato narthântaravishayam ily áha samvid iti. Kitpradhanatvam âha kitir iti, Gñatasarvârthânusamdhanasaktim aha smritis keti. Ananda Giri. Digitized by Google

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