The Brihad Āraṇyaka Upanishad: And the Commentary of Śankar Āchārya on Its First Chapter

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Baptist Mission Press, 1856 - 279 pages
 

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Page 59 - From the unreal lead me to the real; from darkness lead me to light; from death lead me to immortality
Page 238 - They who know the life of life, the eye of the eye, the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, they have comprehended the ancient, primeval Brahman.
Page 76 - It is the ear of the ear — the mind of the mind — the speech of the speech — the breath of the breath — and the eye of the eye.
Page 32 - The Divinity is a boundless ocean of bliss and glory: Human minds are smaller streams, which, arising at first from this ocean, seek still, amid all their wanderings, to return to it. and to lose themselves in that immensity of perfection.
Page 268 - He leads them to Brahman (the conditioned Brahman). This is the path of the Devas. 3. 'But they who living in a village practise (a life of) sacrifices, works of public utility, and alms, they go to the smoke, from smoke to night, from night to the dark half of the moon, from the dark half of the moon to the six months when the sun goes to the south. But they do not reach the year.
Page 104 - ... produced from it. Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain ; subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting it goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere. Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief. The soul cannot be gained by knowledge, not by understanding, not by manifold science. It can be obtained by the soul by which it is desired. It reveals its own truths.
Page 117 - EVERY man is conscious of a power to determine, in things which he conceives to depend upon his determination. To this power we give the name of will...
Page 99 - Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas ! " Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man ; others say it does not exist. This I should like to know, instructed by thee. Such is the third of the boons.
Page 103 - If the slayer thinks I slay, if the slain thinks I am slain, then both of them do not know well. It (the soul) does not slay, nor is it slain.
Page 199 - Kabandha, the son of Atharvan'a.' He said to Patanchala, of the family of Kapi, and to (us) priests, ' 0 Kapya, knowest thou that Thread by which this world and the other world, and all beings are bound together?' Patanchala, of the family of Kapi, said, ' I do not know it, O Venerable.

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