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SANATSUGÂTiya.
analysing all objects. The analysis (is) from that as the root; and as he makes (such an analysis, hence is he so (called). The man who sees the worlds directly sees everything! A Brâhmana, verily, adhering to the truth, understands it, and becomes omniscient. I say to you, O learned man! that adhering to knowledge and the rest ? in this way, one sees the Brahman, O Kshatriya ! by means of a course (of study) in the Vedas!.
Chapter IV.
Dhritarashtra said: O Sanatsugâta! since you have spoken these words of highest significance, relating to the Brahman, and of numerous forms“, give me that advice which is excellent, and difficult to obtain in the
analyser (the word is the same as the word for grammarian) is he who analyses objects, not words merely. Now the true analysis of objects reduces them all to the Brahman (cf. Khåndogya, p. 407; Brihadaranyaka, p. 152); and the sage understands this, and makes the analysis accordingly, so he is rightly called an analyser.
This again is not clear, and the discrepancies of the MSS. make it more perplexing. The meaning, I take to be, that a man may perceive all material things, such as the worlds, Bhur, &c. (as the commentators put it), but to be really omniscient, you must have knowledge of the truth-the Brahman. See Sabha Parvan, chapter V, stanza 7. And see, too, Brihadaranyaka, p. 613.
· P. 167 supra.
"Hearing the Vedantas— Upanishads,' &c., says Sankara. See note 2 supra, p. 173.
• Does this mean referring to many aspects of the Brahman? Sankara merely says nânârQpå. Nilakantha takes it differently, and as meaning that in which everything is elucidated; 'relating to the Brahman' Nilakantha takes to mean leading to the Brahman,' or 'instrument for attaining to the Brahman.'
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