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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ANUGËTA.
excluded from the self', these are helpless and powerless. The Präna and the Apâna, the Udâna, the Samâna, and the Vyåna, these five winds also are joined to the inner self, and together with speech, mind, and understanding make the eight constituents of the universe. He whose skin, nose, ear, eye, tongue, and speech are restrained, and whose mind is pure, and understanding unswerving“, and whose mind is never burnt by these eight fires", he attains to that holy Brahman than which nothing greater exists. And the eleven organs, which are stated as having been produced from egoism—these, O twice-born ones! I will describe specifically. The ear, the skin, the two eyes, the tongue, the nose also as the fifth, the two feet, the organ of excretion, and the organ of generation, the two hands, and speech as the tenth; such is the group of organs, the mind is the eleventh. This group one should subdue first, then the Brahman shines (before him). Five (of these) are called the organs of perception, and five the
Nilakantha apparently takes the original here to mean of gross nature, not subtle, such as anything connected with the self would be. They are helpless and powerless without support from other principles, and mainly the self.
ile here states what is more closely connected with the self, and, as Nilakantha puis ii, accompanies the self till final emancipa. tion. The inner self Nîlakantha takes to mean the self associated with egoism or sell-consciousness.
'Nilakanlha cites certain texts to show that the perceptive xenses work only through the mind, and that the objects of the senses are proxluced from the senses, and hence the universe, he says, is constituted of the eight enumerated above.
• I. e. from the truth. . 1.c. vexed by the operations of any of thesc.
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