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be said of) holy Brahmanas and royal saints who are (my) devotees ? Coming to this transient un.
happy' world, worship me. (Place your) mind on • me, become my devotee, my worshipper; reverence me, and thus making me your highest goal, and devoting your self to abstraction, you will certainly come to me.
CHAPTER X. Yet again, O you of mighty arms! listen to my excellent ? words, which, out of a wish for your welfare, I speak to you who are delighted (with them). Not the multitudes of gods, nor the great sages know my source ; for I am in every way 3 the origin of the gods and great sages. Of (all) mortals, he who knows me to be unborn, without beginning, the great lord of the world, being free from delusion, is released from all sins. Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from delusion, forgiveness, truth, restraint of the senses, tranquillity, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, and also security, harmlessness, equability, contentment, penance, (making) gifts, glory, disgrace, all these different tempers. of living beings are from me alone. The seven great sages, and likewise the four ancient Manus', whose descendants are (all) these people in the world, were all born from my
Cl. p. 79 supra. As referring to the supreme soul.
As creator, as moving agent in workings of the intellect, &c. • The names are not always names of tempers,' but the corresponding 'temper' must be understood.
The words are also otherwise construed, .The four ancients (Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanâlana, Sanatkumara) and the Manus.' According to the later mythology the Manus are fourteen.
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