The Upanishads, Volumes 1-2Friedrich Max Müller Christian Literature, 1897 |
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Page xiv
... performed at the time of a famine or an inundation , and apparently attended with a sudden and almost miraculous success , might often be preserved in the liturgical code of a family or a tribe with a superstitious awe entirely beyond ...
... performed at the time of a famine or an inundation , and apparently attended with a sudden and almost miraculous success , might often be preserved in the liturgical code of a family or a tribe with a superstitious awe entirely beyond ...
Page xxv
... performed according to the rules of the Vedas , are of no avail in the end , but that meditation on Om alone , or that knowledge of what is meant by Om alone , can procure true salva- tion , or true immortality . Thus the pupil is led ...
... performed according to the rules of the Vedas , are of no avail in the end , but that meditation on Om alone , or that knowledge of what is meant by Om alone , can procure true salva- tion , or true immortality . Thus the pupil is led ...
Page lxxxii
... performing the Agnihotra sacrifice ( Khând . Up . V , 24 , 5 ) . But I have never met with upa - ni - as in that sense . We likewise find upa - vis used in the sense of sitting down to a discussion ( Khând . Up . I , 8 , 2 ) , but I ...
... performing the Agnihotra sacrifice ( Khând . Up . V , 24 , 5 ) . But I have never met with upa - ni - as in that sense . We likewise find upa - vis used in the sense of sitting down to a discussion ( Khând . Up . I , 8 , 2 ) , but I ...
Page xcii
... performed by the Hotri priests are described in the Aitareya - âranyaka ; not all , however , but those only which are peculiar to the Mahâ- vrata day . The general rules for the performance of the Mahavrata are to be taken over from ...
... performed by the Hotri priests are described in the Aitareya - âranyaka ; not all , however , but those only which are peculiar to the Mahâ- vrata day . The general rules for the performance of the Mahavrata are to be taken over from ...
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... perform the same sacrifice 2. But this is not so , for knowledge and ignorance are different . The sacrifice which a man performs with knowledge , faith , and the Upanishad is more powerful . This is the full account of the syllable Om ...
... perform the same sacrifice 2. But this is not so , for knowledge and ignorance are different . The sacrifice which a man performs with knowledge , faith , and the Upanishad is more powerful . This is the full account of the syllable Om ...
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Adhyâya Âditya adore Agâtasatru Agni Agnihotra Anuvâka Apâna Âranyaka Asuras becomes bliss body Brah Brahman Brih Brihaspati called Comm commentary commentator consists death deity desires Devas dwells earth ether everything evil explained father fire Ganaka Vaideha Gandharvas Gârgya Gautama Gâyatri gods heart heaven Hiranyagarbha honey Hotri hymn idam immortal person Indra Katha-upanishad Khând KHANDA knowledge knows light live lord Mâdhyandina text Mahâvrata means meditate mind moon Nakiketas oblations obtains offspring penance perceive performed Pragâpati prâna Prâna breath priest pulls rules pupil purusha recites replied Rig-veda Rishi Roer Sacred Books sacrifice Sâkalya Sâma-veda Sâman Samhitâ Sandhi Sankara Sânkhya Sanskrit sense Soma speech stoma Svâhâ Svarga syllable teacher thee thou art translation Trishtubh true udgitha uktha Upanishad Varuna Vâyu Veda Vedânta Verily verse Virâg word worship Yâgñavalkya
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Page 265 - The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less this fire. When he shines, everything shines after him; by his light all this is lighted.
Page 64 - That from whence these beings are born, that by which, when born, they live, that into which they enter at their death, try to know that. That is Brahman.
Page lxi - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Page 41 - As the flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their name and their form, thus a wise man, freed from name and form, goes to the divine Person, who is greater than the great.
Page 140 - He lived with him another thirty-two years. Then Pra</apati said : 4. ELEVENTH KHAJVDA. ' " When a man being asleep, reposing, and at perfect rest 1, sees no dreams, that is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.
Page 123 - Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where one sees something else, hears something else, understands something else, that is the finite. The Infinite is immortal, the finite is mortal.
Page 140 - Taking fuel in his hands, he went again as a pupil to Pra</apati. Pra^apati said to him : ' Maghavat, as you went away satisfied in your heart, for what purpose did you come back ? ' " He said : ' Sir, although it is true that that Self is not blind even if the body is blind, nor lame if the body is lame, though it is true that that Self is not rendered faulty by the faults of...
Page 105 - That which is the subtile essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O /Svetaketu, art it.
Page 17 - As rain-water that has fallen on a mountain-ridge runs down the rocks on all sides, thus does he, who sees a difference between qualities, run after them on all sides. 15. " As pure water poured into pure water remains the same, thus, O Gautama, is the Self of a thinker who knows.