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Christian Lindtner
Jambu-jyoti
56. "As He was resting there a lotus expanded in his navel. Like the disc of the lately risen sun it was charming with its golden pericarp".
57. "Here Brahma was born with his staff, water-pot, sacrificial thread and garment of antelope-hide. He created the mothers of the world :"
58. "Aditi was the mother of the crowds of Gods, Diti of the Asuras, Manu [the father] of men, Vinată [was the mother] of all the various kinds. of birds,"
59. Kadrū was the mother of the serpents, Sulasă the mother of the various kinds of Nāgas, Surabhi the mother of the quardrupeds, Ila of all the seeds".
60. Some maintain that their creation went even further. Some say that the [world] was created without caste. Some say that it [was created] with castes, etc.
61. [Those who believe in Time, say :] "Time produces all creatures, and Time takes living beings back again. Time is awake when others are asleep. Time is certainly most difficult to overcome".
62. [Those who believe that Iśvara creates the world, say :] "Here [in this world] it is the duty of a king to protect his subjects. Likewise, the great Iśvara, the Lord of everything, takes care of everything in the world".
63. "When man is ignorant he is not at all master of his own happiness and suffering. Forced by Isvara he goes either to heaven or to hell".
64. "Isvara is subtle, inconceivable, without all the usual organs of sense, omniscient, the creator of everything. He can be achieved in ecstacy (dhyana) by the yogic striving of yogis whose minds are pure. Those who are desirous of perfection, and who love the bliss of peace should always meditate upon Isvara in the form of the moon, sun, fire, earth, water, wind, a consecrated person, and space".
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65. [Those who believe in Brahmā, say, in the Manusmrti 1.6 and 1.7 :) "[In the beginning] there was a sort of darkness. It could not be discerned, it was without marks, it could not be figured out, it could not be known, it was, as it were, entirely asleep".
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