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BHAGAVADGITA.
exception your divine emanations, by which emanations you stand pervading all these worlds. How shall I know you, O you of mystic power! always meditating on you? And in what various entities', O lord ! should I meditate on you ? Again, O Ganârdana! do you yourself declare your powers and emanations; because hearing this nectar, I (still) feel no satiety.
The Deity said : Well then, O best of Kauravas! I will state to you my own divine emanations; but (only) the chief (ones), for there is no end to the extent of my (emanations). I am the self, O Gudakesa ! seated in the hearts of all beings?. I am the beginning and the middle and the end also of all beings. I am Vishnu among the Adityas °, the beaming sun among the shining (bodies); I am Mariki among the Maruts, and the moon among the lunar mansions'. Among the Vedas, I am the Sâma-veda. I am Indra among the gods. And I am mind among the senses ?. I am consciousness in (living) beings. And I am Sankara 8 among the Rudras, the lord of wealth' among Yakshas and Rakshases. And I am fire among the Vasus, and Meru 10 among the high
"To know you fully being impossible, what special manifestation of you should we resort to for our meditations ?
· P. 129 infra..
• Aditya is used in the Veda chiefly as a general epithet for a number of solar deities.' Max Müller, Hibbert Lectures, p. 264.
• The storm-gods, as Max Müller calls them. • Cf. Sutta Nipâta, p. 121. • As being, probably, full of music.
'Cl. K’handogya, p. 121, where Sankara says, ' Mind is the chief of man's inner activities.'
• Now the third member of our Trinity. • Kubera.
10 The Golden Mount.
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1895 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |