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VIJAY PANDYA
SAMBODHI
the other one, not eating, merely looks on Settled (nestling) in such a tree, The spirit (Purusa) caught up in illusion or delusion grieves in his powerlessness till when he worships and sees the omnipotence then he wards off his sorrow away from him.
द्वा सुवर्णा सयुजा सखाया समानं वृक्षं परिषस्वजाते । तयोरन्या पिप्पलं स्वाद्वत्त्यनश्नन्नन्यो अभिचाकशीति ॥ समाने वृक्षे पुरुषो निमग्नोऽनीशया शोचति मुह्यमानः ।
जुष्टं यदा पश्यत्यन्यमीशमस्य महिमानमिति वीतशोकः ।। (Svetāsvatara Up. 4-6-7) - To put the record straight, it is true that, Svetasvatara Upanisad is full of contradictions bereft of any singular central theme as is the case with most of the Upanisads. In fact, in the Svetasvatara Upanisad, as in any other Upanisads, we can see the Upanişad in the making, many parts, often contradictory, forming it whole. Nevertheless, it cannot be gainsaid that the Svetaśvatara Upanişad has an unmistakable bright hue of theism. The Upanisad has a string of verses which remove any cavil of doubt about its being theistic most pronouncedly, at least in some parts. To illustrate .
यच्च स्वभावं पचति विश्वयोनिः पाच्यांश्च सर्वान् परिणामयेद्यः । सर्वमेतद्विश्वमधितिष्त्येको गुणांश्च सर्वान्विनियोजयेद्यः ।। आरभ्य कर्माणि गुणान्वितानि भावांश्च सर्वान्विनियोजयेद्यः । तेषामभावे कतकर्मनाशः कर्मक्षये याति स तत्त्वतोऽन्यः ।। (6-4) .
एको देवः सर्वभूतेषु गूढः सर्वव्यापी सर्वभूतान्तरात्मा । कर्माध्यक्षः सर्वभूताधिवासः साक्षी चेता केवलो निर्गुणश्च ॥ (6-6) एको वशी निष्क्रियाणां बहूनामेकं बीजं बहुधा यः करोति । तमात्मसंस्थं येऽनुपश्यन्ति धीरास्तेषां सुखं शाश्वतं नेतरेषाम् ॥ (6-12)
When He, the source of all the universe, ripens his essential nature into creation and makes everything that is to be ripened, grow, He directs as the all here, and everything distributing individually all special characteristics. To begin anew to work instinct with gunas distributing individually the constituents or qualities. The work in which they are absent comes to nothing he becomes inactive, he is in essence the other. The one God, veiled in all beings penetrating all, the utmost soul of all, The scrutinizer of actions, sweet in all beings, the witness, a mere spirit and free from all gunas. The one who is free and the
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