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LAWS OF MANU.
XII, 119.
119. The Self alone is the multitude of the gods, the universe rests on the Self; for the Self produces the connexion of these embodied (spirits) with actions.
120. Let him meditate on the ether as identical with the cavities (of the body), on the wind as identical with the organs of motions and of touch, on the most excellent light as the same with his digestive organs and his sight, on water as the same with the (corporeal) fluids, on the earth as the same with the solid parts (of his body);
121. On the moon as one with the internal organ, on the quarters of the horizon as one with his sense of hearing, on Vishnu as one with his (power of) motion, on Hara as the same with his strength, on Agni (Fire) as identical with his speech, on Mitra as identical with his excretions, and on Pragâpati as one with his organ of generation.
122. Let him know the supreme Male (Purusha, to be) the sovereign ruler of them all, smaller even than small, bright like gold, and perceptible by the intellect (only when) in (a state of) sleep(-like abstraction).
123. Some call him Agni (Fire), others Manu, the
products and the causes,' or 'the intelligent and the non-intelligent' (Nand.), means according to Gov., that which possesses a shape of certain proportions and its opposite' (mûrtam prithivyâdi yakkamůrtam âkâsâdi). Medh. proposes two other explanations, 1. 'that which is both existent and non-existent, i.e. comes into existence and perishes;' 2. 'that which like the hare's horn is non-existent, and that which like ether is eternal. The word samâhitah,'concentrating himself,' may have, as Medh. thinks, a technical meaning, and refer to the Samadhi, mentioned in the Yoga and Vedânta systems.
119. In this verse Gov., too, explains âtmå by paramâtma.
120. Medh. explains snehe, on the (corporeal) fluids,' by 'on the viscous substances,' e. g. 'the brain and so forth.'
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