Satapatha Bramhana Part 05

SR No.: 007680
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1900
Total Pages: 2017
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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I ADHYAYA, I PÂDA, 7.
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6. If it be said that (the word 'seeing ') has a secondary (figurative) meaning; we deny this, on account of the word 'Self' (being applied to the cause of the world).
The contention that, because, in passages standing close by, the word 'seeing' is used in a secondary sense, the
seeing ' predicated of the Sat ( Being ') is also to be taken in a secondary sense, viz. as denoting (not real thought but) a certain condition previous to creation, cannot be upheld; for in other texts met with in the same section (viz. ‘All this has that for its Self; that is the True, that is the Self,' Kh. Up. VI, 8, 7), that which first had been spoken of as Sat is called the Self. The designation 'Self' which in this passage is applied to the Sat in its relation to the entire world, sentient or non-sentient, is in no way appropriate to the Pradhana. We therefore conclude that, as the highest Self is the Self of fire, water, and earth also, the words fire, &c. (in the passages stating that fire, &c. thought) denote the highest Self only. This conclusion agrees with the text. Let me enter into these three beings with this living Self, and evolve names and forms,' for this text implies that fire, water, &c. possess substantial being and definite names only through the highest Self having entered into them. The thought ascribed in the text to fire, water, &c. hence is thought in the proper sense, and the hypothesis that, owing to its connexion with these latter texts, the thought predicated of Being' ( it thought,' &c.) should be thought in a figurative sense only thus lapses altogether.
The next following Satra confirms the same view. . 7. Because release is taught of him who takes his stand on it.
Svetaketu, who is desirous of final release, is at firstby means of the clause 'Thou art that'- instructed to meditate on himself as having his Self in that which truly is; and thereupon the passage for him there is delay' only as long as 'I shall not be released, then I shall
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