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are called Sutegas, Visvardpa, &c.), and parts-viz. head, eye, breath, trunk, bladder, feet-of the worshipper's body. *The head is Sutegas'-that means : the head of the devotee is (identical with) heaven, which is the head of the highest Self; and so on up to the feet,' i.e. the feet of the devotee are identical with the earth, which constitutes the feet of the highest Self. The devotee having thus reflected on the highest Self, which has the three worlds for its body, as present within his own body, thereupon is told to view his own chest, hair, heart, mind and mouth as identical with the altar, grass and the other things which are required for the Agnihotra ; further to identify the oblation to Pråna with the Agnihotra, and by means of this Prâna-agnihotra to win the favour of Vaisvanara, i.e. the highest Self. The final conclusion then remains that Vaisvânara is none other than the highest Self, the supreme Person.--Here terminates the adhikarana of Vaisvånara.'
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