Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
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

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CHAPTER IV, 1.
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a former birth perceived the self?. He who properly perceives pleasure and pain to be inconstant, the body to be an unholy aggregate, and ruin to be connected with action, and who remembers that whatever little there is of happiness is all misery", he will cross beyond the fearful ocean of worldly life, which is very difficult to cross. He who understands the Pradhana", (though) attacked by birth and death and disease, sees one (principle of) consciousness in all beings possessed of consciousness. Then seeking after the supreme seat, he becomes indifferent to everything? O best (of men)! I will give you accurate instruction concerning it. Learn from me exhaustively, O Brahmana! the excellent knowledge concerning the eternal imperishable seat, which I am now about to declare.
CHAPTER IV. He who becoming placido, and thinking of nought, may become absorbed in the one receptacle', abandoning each previous (element), he will cross beyond
Arguna Misra says the strength of the impression in the former binib would give him this knowledge in the subsequent birth. • Cf. Sanatsugitiya, p. 166.
Cf. inter alia p. 856 infra. • Cf. Gitá, p. 79. Otherwise called Prakriti, or nature. • Cf. Gitâ, p. 134.
'Cf. Gfrå, p. 111. • We now begin, as Nilakantha points out, the answer to the question put above by Kasyapa about the emancipation of the self. Placid, Arguna Misra renders to mean.silent, taciturn.' See p. 234 supre.
• The path of knowledge, says Arguna Misra; the Brahman, says Nilakanlha. Abandoning each element=absorbing the gross into the subtle elements, and so forth, Nilakantha ; abandoning cach elementary mode of worship till one reaches that of contemplacing the absolute Brahman, Arguna Misra.
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