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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SETTEMLER, 1875.
A veil, which ser.se may never rend,
Thyself,-of all which sense reveals
The subtile germ and cause-conccals : Tlee saints alone may comprehend. Thou dwellesť cvery heart within,
Yet fillest all the points of space;
Without affection, full cf grace, Primoval, changeless, pure from sin; Though knowing all, Thyself unknown,
Self-sprung, and yet of all the source,
Unmastore, lord of boundless force, Though onc, in each thing diverso shown. Wil minds by long restraint subulued,
Saints, fixing all their thoughts on Thoc,
Thy Instrous form within them sec, And ransomed, vain the lighest good. Who, Lord, Thy real nature knows?
Unborn art Thou, and yet on carth
Hast shown Thyself in many a birth, And, free from passion, slain Thy foes. The glory in creation shown,
Though scen, our reason's grasp transcends :
Who, then, Thine essence comprehends, Which thought and scripture teach alone ? Ungained, by Thee was nought to gain,
No object more to seek: Thy birth,
And all Thy wondrous deeds on earth, Hare only sprung from love to men.
With this poor hymn though ill-content,
We coase :--what stays our faltering tongue ?
We have not half Thy praises sung, But all our power to sing is spent. 31. Satapatha Brihmana, ü. 2. 2.19:-Results
of Truth and Falschool. Those noble men who falsehood dread,
In wealth and glory ever grow,
As flames with greater brightness glow, With oil in ceaseless flow when fed. But liko to flames with water drenched,
Which, faintly flickering, die away,
So liars day by day decay, Till all their lustre soon is quenched. 3. Taittiriya Aranyaka, x. 9:-Siccet sarour
of Good Deeds : Falsehood to be shunned. As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours wafts from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour speeds To distant lands of virtuous deeds. As one expert in daring feats
Athwart a pit a sword who lays,
And walking on its edge essays The chasm to cross, but soon retreats,
With cries, afraid to fall below, And trembling stands upon the brink, - So let a man from falsehood shrink,
And guard himself from future woe.
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* Compare the Dhumarad Giti, iu. 92: "There is nothing which I am bound to do, nor anything unubtained which I have yet to obtain; and yet I continue to act. 25. As the urant, where devoted to action, d.), so let the wise man
d. seeking to rotate the benefit of the world."
The literal prize translation of this passage is as follows: 15. "Glory to l'ince, why art first the creator of the universe,
txt ita upaldur, and finally its destruyer; glory to The in this thrill charter. 16. As water falling from the
ly. the living but olle flavour, assumes different ta Vul's in dimint bodlit's, so Thou, Associated witli the three quisettes, Prias, and Twinux, or Goodness. Pussion, ini Dacken, lesunest the states those of creutor, es 'T. destroyer. Recording to the commentatori.
iT u nchanged. 17. Imamca surable, Thou TOP
tile Werlis; lisiting Bath , Thon art the fulfiller of te h ered, That i conueror; utterly indis.
il cart the care of all that is discorried. 1S. ? chi Tu from oneratother case assumest this trumlitian; Thiy
118 le com t these o ry tal undergoes from the contact of different Co618. 1Tiu art kno nasad ilt our larta, on as Conte: as fri. Frontatti.. ascetis, merciful, .
by sit, primea, and imperishable 2. 11.00 e all things, Thyself unknown pran trom Tivi for existent). Thou art ile source of all things, mu prt li lont of all, Thyself with a naster: thonth lat One Thousamest all forms. 21. Thou art circlared to DETOX is celebrated in the seven Sim -liy muuns, to belle who sleeps on the waturs of the seven ocean., whose fara is licht up by the rod of New Yaya (Fire). ad whes
he one nurt of the sevent w ils. .. Kowlog which Saliks divur class=3 of fruit Xirtue, jileasure, wealth, and
fiual liberation, the division of time into four yugas Cages, the fourfold division of the people into castes,--all these things come from Thee, the four-faced. 23. Yogins (levoutly contemplative men), with minds subdued by exercise, recognize Thee, the luminous, abiding in their hearts, (and 80 attain) to liberation from earthly existence. 24. Who comprehends the truth regarding Thee, who art unborn, and yet reconiest born; who art passionless, yet slayest thine enemies; who sleepest, and yet art awake? 25. Thou art capable of enjoying sounds and other objects of sense, of practising severe austerity, of protecting thy creatures, and of living in indifference to all external things. 26. The rad, leading to perfection, which vary according to the different revealed systems, all end in Thee, as the waves of the Ganges tew to the ocean. 27. For those passionless men whose learts are fixed on Thee, who have committed t, Thee thrir works. Thou art a refuge, so that they escape further mundane births 28. Thy glory, als manifested to the senses in the earth and other oljects, is yet incomprehonsible: what shall he sail of Thyself, who unst be proved only by the authority of scripture and by inference ? Du. Sering that the remembrance of Thee alone purifies a Inut, the rewards of other mental acts also, when direct. ed towards thes, are therehy indicated. 30. As the waters exceed the ocean, aud as the beans of light exceed the sun, so Thy acts transcend our praises. 31. There is nothing for Thee to attain which Thon hast not already attained : kin iness to the world is the only motive for Thy birth and for Thy actions. 39. If this our hymn now comes to a close after celebrating Thy greatness, the reason of this is our exhaustion, or our inability to say more, not that there is any limit ( th, so much-ness, quatitas) to thy attri. butus." These verses Lave not all been rendered literally.
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