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that sees through the eye, or out of the eye, they would have received a right though indirect idea of the Self. But when they thought that the reflection of man in the eye of another person was meant, they were wrong. And they evidently took it in the latter sense, for they asked—“Sir, he who is perceived in the water and he who is perceived in a mirror, who is he?" Prajapati replied:-He, the Self himself indeed is seen in all these. Look at yourself in a pan of water, and whatever you do not understand of yourself, come and tell me. They looked in the water pan. Then Prajapati said “what do you see.” They said: “ We both see the Self thus altogether, a picture even to the very hairs and nails,” Praja pati then said: "After you have adorned yourselves, have put on your best clothes and cleansed yourselves, look again into the water pan.” They did so and looked into the water pan. Prajapati says: “ what do you see?” They said: “Just as we are, well-adorned, with our best clothes and clean, thus we are both there, Sir, well a lorned with our best clothes and clean." Praj: pati said: “ that is the Self, that is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.” They both went away satisfied in their hearts.
Prajapati thought: “ they both go away without having perceived and without having known the Ser and whoever of these two whether gods or demons
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