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opposites, and being firm in their beliefs! Those who, resting on me, work for release from old age and death ?, know the Brahman', the whole Adhyâtma, and all action. And those who know me with the Adhibhàta, the Adhidaiva, and the Adhiyagña, . having minds devoted to abstraction, know me at the time of departure (from this world).
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Arguna said: What is that Brahman, what the Adhyatma, and what, О best of beings! is action ? And what is called the Adhibhůta ? And who is the Adhiyagña, and how in this body, o destroyer of Madhu ? And how, too, are you to be known at the time of departure (from this world) by those who restrain their selfs ?
The Deity said : The Brahman is the supreme, the indestructible. Its manifestation (as an individual self) is called the Adhyâtma. The offering of an oblation to any divinity), which is the cause of the production and development of all things, is named action. The AdhibhQta is all perishable things. The Adhidai. vata is the (primal) being. And the Adhiyagña, O best of embodied (beings)! is I myself in this body“.
* Concerning the supreme principle and the mode of worshipping it. . Cl. infra, p. 109.
• See the next chapter. • Adbyáima where it occurs before (c.g. p. 55) has been rendered the relation between the supreme and individual soul.' As to
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