sa tān uvāca) dharma.ātmā maharṣīn mānavo bhṛguḥ | asya sarvasya śṛṇuta) karmayogasya nirṇayam ||
To the great sages (who addressed him thus) righteous Bhrzgu, sprung from Manu, answered, • Hear the decision concerning this whole connexion with actions.'
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Action, which springs from the mind, from speech, and from the body, produces either good or evil results; by action are caused the (various) conditions of men, the highest, the middling, and the lowest.
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परद्रव्येष्व् अभिध्यानं मनसा-अनिष्टचिन्तनम् । वितथाभिनिवेशश् च त्रिविधं कर्म मानसम् ॥
paradravyeṣv abhidhyānaṃ manasā-aniṣṭacintanam | vitathābhiniveśaś ca trividhaṃ karma mānasam ||
Coveting the property of others, thinking in one's heart of what is undesirable, and adherence to false (doctrines), are the three kinds of (sinful) mental action.
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Taking what has not been given, injuring (creatures) without the sanction of the law, and holding criminal intercourse with another man's wife, are declared to be the three kinds of (wicked) bodily action.
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In consequence of (many) sinful acts committed with his body, a man becomes (in the next birth] something inanimate, in consequence (of sins) cornlocations,' i. e. ' the mind, speech, and the body.' ' Falls under tei heads,' i.e. 'those mentioned in verses 5-7.' The mind, which here called the instigator, is the internal organ, which has the faculty of sawkalpa, ' volition.'
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वाग्दण्डो ऽअथ मनोदण्डः कायदण्डस् तथा-एव च । यस्य-एते निहिता बुद्धौ त्रिदण्डी-इति स उच्यते) ॥
vāgdaṇḍo 'atha manodaṇḍaḥ kāyadaṇḍas tathā-eva ca | yasya-ete nihitā buddhau tridaṇḍī-iti sa ucyate) ||
That man is called a (true) trida/^in in whose \ r mind these three, the control over his speech (vagda/^a), the control over his thoughts (manoda^^a), and the control over his body (kayada^da), are firmly^} fixed. /
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That man who keeps this threefold control/ (over himself) with respect to all created beings and\ wholly subdues desire and wrath, thereby assuredly I gains complete success.
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यो ऽअस्य-आत्मनः कारयिता तं क्षेत्रज्ञं प्रचक्षते) । यः करोति) तु कर्माणि स भूतात्मा)-उच्यते) बुधैः ॥
yo 'asya-ātmanaḥ kārayitā taṃ kṣetrajñaṃ pracakṣate) | yaḥ karoti) tu karmāṇi sa bhūtātmā)-ucyate) budhaiḥ ||
Him who impels this (corporeal) Self to action, they call the Kṣetrajña (the knower of the field); but him who does the acts, the wise name the Bhutatman (the Self consisting of the elements).
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tāv ubhau bhūtasaṃpṛktau mahān kṣetrajña eva ca | uccāvaceṣu bhūteṣu sthitaṃ taṃ vyāpya) tiṣṭhataḥ) ||
These two, the Great One and the Kṣetrajña, who are closely united with the elements, pervade him who resides in the multiform created beings. Giva, has been mentioned in verse under the appellation Kṣetrajña. He adds that ' others' explain Giva by ' the internal organ, which has the form of mind, intelligence, and egoism.' The former view is adopted by
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tau dharmaṃ paśyatas) tasya pāpaṃ ca-atandritau saha | yābhyāṃ prāpnoti) saṃpṛktaḥ pretya-iha ca sukha.asukham ||
Those two together examine without tiring the merit and the guilt of that (individual soul), united with which it obtains bliss or misery both in this world and the next.
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Let (man), having recognised even by means of his intellect these transitions of the individual soul (which depend) on merit and demerit, always fix his heart on (the acquisition of) merit.
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Goodness is declared (to have the form of) knowledge, Darkness (of) ignorance, Activity (of) love and hatred; such is the nature of these (three) which is (all-)pervading and clings to everything created.. When (man) experiences in his soul a (feeling) full of bliss, a deep calm, as it were, and a pure light, then let him know (that it is) among those three (the quality called) Goodness.
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yat tu syān) mohasaṃyuktam avyaktaṃ viṣayātmakam | apratarkyam avijñeyaṃ tamas tad upadhārayet) ||
What is coupled with delusion, what has the character of an undiscernible mass, what cannot be fathomed by reasoning, what cannot be fully known, one must consider (as the quality of) Darkness.
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vedābhyāsas tapo jñānaṃ śaucam indriyanigrahaḥ | dharmakriyā-ātmacintā ca sāttvikaṃ guṇalakṣaṇam ||
The study of the Vedas, austerity, (the pursuit of) knowledge, purity, control over the organs, the performance of meritorious acts and meditation on the Soul, (are) the marks of the quality of Goodness.
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Delighting in undertakings, want of firmness, commission of sinful acts, and continual indulgence in sensual pleasures, (are) the marks of the quality of Activity.
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Covetousness, sleepiness, pusillanimity, cruelty, atheism, leading an evil life, a habit of soliciting favours, and inattentiveness, are the marks of the quality of Darkness.
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Know, moreover, the following to be a brief description of the three qualities, each in its order, as they appear in the three (times, the present, past, and future).
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yat karma kṛtvā) kurvaṃś ca kariṣyaṃś ca-eva lajjati) | taj jñeyaṃ viduṣā sarvaṃ tāmasaṃ guṇalakṣaṇam ||
When a (man), having done, doing, or being about to do any act, feels ashamed, the learned may know that all (such acts bear) the mark of the quality of Darkness.
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येन-अस्मिन् कर्मना लोके ख्यातिम् इच्छति) पुष्कलाम् । न च शोचत्य् असंपत्तौ तद् विज्ञेयं तु राजसम् ॥
yena-asmin karmanā loke khyātim icchati) puṣkalām | na ca śocaty asaṃpattau tad vijñeyaṃ tu rājasam ||
But, when (a man) desires (to gain) by an act much fame in this world and feels no sorrow on failing, know that it (bears the mark of the quality of) Activity.
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yat sarveṇa-icchati jñātuṃ yan na lajjati) ca-ācaran) | yena tuṣyati) ca-ātmā-asya tat sattvaguṇalakṣaṇam ||
But that (bears) the mark of the quality of Goodness which with his whole (heart) he desires to know, which he is not ashamed to perform, and at which his soul rejoices.
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The craving after sensual pleasures is declared to be the mark of Darkness, (the pursuit of) wealth (the mark) of Activity, (the desire to gain) spiritual according to the rule of conduct;' pramada/z, ' inattentiveness/
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Those endowed with Goodness reach the state of gods, those endowed with Activity the state of men, and those endowed with Darkness ever sink to the condition of beasts; that is the threefold course of transmigrations.
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trividhā trividhā-eṣā tu vijñeyā gauṇikī gatiḥ | adhamā madhyama.agryā ca karma.vidyā.viśeṣataḥ ||
But know this threefold course of transmigrations that depends on the (three) qualities (to be again) threefold, low, middling, and high, according to the particular nature of the acts and of the knowledge (of each man).
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स्थावराः कृमिकीटाश् च मत्स्याः सर्पाः सकच्छपाः । पशवश् च मृगाश् च-एव जघन्या तामसी गतिः ॥
sthāvarāḥ kṛmi.kīṭāś ca matsyāḥ sarpāḥ sa.kacchapāḥ | paśavaś ca mṛgāś ca-eva jaghanyā tāmasī gatiḥ ||
Immovable (beings), insects, both small and great, fishes, snakes, and tortoises, cattle and wild animals, are the lowest conditions to which (the quality of) Darkness leads.
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Kings and Kshatriyas, the domestic priests of kings, and those who delight in the warfare of disputations (constitute) the middling (rank of the) states caused by Activity.
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गन्धर्वा गुह्यका यक्षा विबुधानुचराश् च ये । तथा-एव-अप्सरसः सर्वा राजसीषु-उत्तमा गतिः ॥
gandharvā guhyakā yakṣā vibudhānucarāś ca ye | tathā-eva-apsarasaḥ sarvā rājasīṣu-uttamā gatiḥ ||
The Gandharvas, the Guhyakas, and the servants of the gods, likewise the Apsarases, (belong all to) the highest (rank of) conditions produced by Activity.
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तापसा यतयो विप्रा ये च वैमानिका गणाः । नक्षत्राणि च दैत्याश् च प्रथमा सात्त्विकी गतिः ॥
tāpasā yatayo viprā ye ca vaimānikā gaṇāḥ | nakṣatrāṇi ca daityāś ca prathamā sāttvikī gatiḥ ||
Hermits, ascetics, Brāhmaṇas, the crowds of the Vaimanika deities, the lunar mansions, and the Daityas (form) the first (and lowest rank of the) existences caused by Goodness.
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Thus (the result) of the threefold action, the whole system of transmigrations which (consists) of three classes, (each) with three subdivisions, and which includes all created beings, has been fully pointed out. which the Yatis, ' ascetics/ are a people living on mount Meru. ' The Vaimanika deities/ i. e. ' those who move in mid-air with their palatial chariots, called vimanas.' Instead of Daitya^,
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In consequence of attachment to (the objects of) the senses, and in consequence of the non-performance of their duties, fools, the lowest of men, reach the vilest births.
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Those who committed mortal sins (mahapataka), having passed during large numbers of years through dreadful hells, obtain, after the expiration of (that term of punishment), the following births.
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A Brāhmaṇa who drinks (the spirituous liquor called) Sura shall enter (the bodies) of small and large insects, of moths, of birds, feeding on ordure, and of destructive beasts.
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tṛṇa.gulma.latānāṃ ca kravyādāṃ daṃṣṭriṇām api | krūrakarmakṛtāṃ ca-eva śataśo gurutalpagaḥ ||
The violator of a Gurus bed (enters) a hundred times (the forms) of grasses, shrubs, and creepers, likewise of carnivorous (animals) and of (beasts) with fangs and of those doing cruel deeds.
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For stealing meat a vulture, for stealing fat a cormorant, for stealing oil a winged animal (of the (animals)' by ' vultures and the like/ '(beasts) with fangs' by 'lions or tigers and the like.' 'Those doing cruel deeds' are, according to
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For stealing silk a partridge, for stealing linen a frog, for stealing cotton-cloth a crane, for stealing a cow an iguana, for stealing molasses a flying-fox;
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chucchundariḥ śubhān gandhān patraśākaṃ tu barhiṇaḥ | [M.chucchundarīḥ ] śvāvit kṛtānnaṃ vividham akṛtānnaṃ tu śalyakaḥ ||
For stealing fine perfumes a musk-rat, for stealing vegetables consisting of leaves a peacock, for stealing cooked food of various kinds a porcupine, for stealing uncooked food a hedgehog.
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For stealing a deer or an elephant a wolf, for stealing a horse a tiger, for stealing fruit and roots a monkey, for stealing a woman a bear, for stealing water a black-white cuckoo, for stealing vehicles a camel, for stealing cattle a he-goat.
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यद् वा तद् वा परद्रव्यम् अपहृत्य) बलात्- नरः । अवश्यं याति) तिर्यक्त्वं जग्ध्वा) च-एव-अहुतं हविः ॥
yad vā tad vā paradravyam apahṛtya) balāt- naraḥ | avaśyaṃ yāti) tiryaktvaṃ jagdhvā) ca-eva-ahutaṃ haviḥ ||
That man who has forcibly taken away any kind of property belonging to another, or who has eaten sacrificial food (of) which (no portion) had been offered, inevitably becomes an animal. which latter word
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maitrākṣajyotikaḥ preto vaiśyo bhavati) pūyabhuk | [M.maitrākṣijyotikaḥ ] cailāśakaś ca bhavati) śūdro dharmāt svakāc cyutaḥ) ||
A Vaiśya who has fallen off from his duty becomes a Maitraksha^yotika Preta, who feeds onpus; and a 6udra, a A^ailcLsaka (Preta, who feeds on\ moths).)
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तामिस्रादिषु च-उग्रेषु नरकेषु विवर्तनम् । असिपत्रवनादीनि बन्धनछेदनानि च ॥
tāmisrādiṣu ca-ugreṣu narakeṣu vivartanam | asipatravanādīni bandhana.chedanāni ca ||
(The torture of) being tossed about in dreadful hells, Tamisra and the rest, (that of) the Forest with sword-leaved trees and the like, and (that of) being bound and mangled;
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विविधाश् च-एव संपीडाः काकौलूकैश् च भक्षणम् । करम्भवालुकातापान् कुम्भीपाकांश् च दारुणान् ॥
vividhāś ca-eva saṃpīḍāḥ kāka.ulūkaiś ca bhakṣaṇam | karambhavālukātāpān kumbhīpākāṃś ca dāruṇān ||
And various torments, the (pain of) being devoured by ravens and owls, the heat of scorching sand, and the (torture of) being boiled in jars, which is hard to bear; J. And births in the wombs (of) despicable (beings) which cause constant misery, and afflictions from cold and heat and terrors of various kinds,
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बन्धुप्रियवियोगांश् च संवासं च-एव दुर्जनैः । द्रव्यार्जनं च नाशं च मित्रअमित्रस्य च-अर्जनम् ॥
bandhu.priya.viyogāṃś ca saṃvāsaṃ ca-eva durjanaiḥ | dravyārjanaṃ ca nāśaṃ ca mitra.amitrasya ca-arjanam ||
And separations from their relatives and dear ones, and the (pain of) dwelling together with the wicked, (labour in) gaining wealth and its loss, (trouble in) making friends and (the appearance of enemies,
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Acts which secure (the fulfilment of) wishes in this world or in the next are called pravrztta (such as cause a continuation of mundane existence); but acts performed without any desire (for a reward), preceded by (the acquisition) of (true) knowledge, are declared to be nivrz'tta (such as cause the cessation of mundane existence). ^
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pravṛttaṃ karma saṃsevyaṃ devānām eti) sāmyatām | nivṛttaṃ sevamānas) tu bhūtāny atyeti) pañca vai ||
He who sedulously performs acts leading to | future births (pravrztta) becomes equal to the gods; but he who is intent on the performance of those causing the cessation (of existence, nivrztta) indeed, passes beyond (the reach of) the five elements.
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He who sacrifices to the Self (alone), equally recognising the Self in all created beings and all created beings in the Self, becomes (independent like) an autocrat and self-luminous. taught in the Veda,' and takes it to mean ' sacrifices like the Gyotish/oma and the worship of images.'
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एतद्द् हि जन्मसाफल्यं ब्राह्मणस्य विशेषतः । प्राप्य)-एतत् कृतकृत्यो हि द्विजो भवति) न-अन्यथा ॥
etadd hi janmasāphalyaṃ brāhmaṇasya viśeṣataḥ | prāpya)-etat kṛta.kṛtyo hi dvijo bhavati) na-anyathā ||
For that secures the attainment of the object of existence, especially in the case of a Brahma;za, because by attaining that, not otherwise, a twiceborn man has gained all his ends.
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The Veda is the eternal eye of the manes, gods, and men; the Veda-ordinance (is) both beyond the sphere of (human) power, and beyond the sphere of (human) comprehension; that is a certain fact. a manner that he understands Brahman to be the object of the worship, and makes over the merit to Brahman. The participial clause means, according to
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शब्दः स्पर्शश् च रूपं च रसो गन्धश् च पञ्चमः । वेदाद् एव प्रसूयन्ते) प्रसूतिर् गुणकर्मतः ॥
śabdaḥ sparśaś ca rūpaṃ ca raso gandhaś ca pañcamaḥ | vedād eva prasūyante) prasūtir guṇa.karmataḥ ||
Sound, touch, colour, taste, and fifthly smell are known through the Veda alone, (their) production (is) through the (Vedic rites, which in this respect are) secondary acts. a^akyam apaurusheyatvat,
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(Even forgetful) students of the (sacred) books are more distinguished than the ignorant, those who remember them surpass the (forgetful) students, those who possess a knowledge (of the meaning) are more distinguished than those who explain asya ^anto^, ' of these creatures,' by ' of men entitled to perform Vedic rites.'
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tapo vidyā ca viprasya niḥśreyasakaraṃ param | tapasā kilbiṣaṃ hanti) vidyayā-amṛtam aśnute) ||
Austerity and sacred learning are the best means by which a Brāhmaṇa secures supreme bliss; fyy austerities he destroys guilt, by sacred learning he obtains the cessation of (births and) deaths.
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प्रत्यक्षं च-अनुमानं च शास्त्रं च विविधाआगमम् । त्रयं सुविदितं कार्यं धर्मशुद्धिम् अभीप्सता ॥
pratyakṣaṃ ca-anumānaṃ ca śāstraṃ ca vividhā.āgamam | trayaṃ suviditaṃ kāryaṃ dharmaśuddhim abhīpsatā ||
The three (kinds of evidence), perception, inference, and the (sacred) Institutes which comprise the tradition (of) many (schools), must be fully understood by him who desires perfect correctness with respect to the sacred law.
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आर्षं धर्मौपदेशं च वेदशास्त्रअविरोधिना । यस् तर्केण-अनुसंधत्ते) स धर्मं वेद) न-इतरः ॥
ārṣaṃ dharma.upadeśaṃ ca vedaśāstra.avirodhinā | yas tarkeṇa-anusaṃdhatte) sa dharmaṃ veda) na-itaraḥ ||
He alone, and no other man, knows the sacred law, who explores the (utterances) of the sages and the body of the laws, by (modes of) reasoning, not repugnant to the Veda-lore.
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Thus the acts which secure supreme bliss have been exactly and fully described; (now) the secret portion of these Institutes, proclaimed by Manu, will be taught.
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If it be asked how it should be with respect to (points of) the law which have not been (specially) mentioned, (the answer is), 'that which Brāhmaṇas (who are) 6*ish/as propound, shall doubtlessly have legal (force)/
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dharmeṇa-adhigato yais tu vedaḥ sa.paribṛṃhaṇaḥ | te śiṣṭā brāhmaṇā jñeyāḥ śruti.pratyakṣahetavaḥ ||
Those Brāhmaṇas must be considered as vSish/as who, in accordance with the sacred law, have studied the Veda together with its appendages, and are able to adduce proofs perceptible by the senses from the revealed texts. those which, like the Bauddhas, Nirgranthas, and Lokayatikas, deny the authority of the Vedas. 108-115.
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ऋग्वेदविद् यजुर्विद्- च सामवेदविद् एव च । त्र्यवरा परिषद्- ज्ञेया धर्मसंशयनिर्णये ॥
ṛgvedavid yajurvid- ca sāmavedavid eva ca | try.avarā pariṣad- jñeyā dharmasaṃśayanirṇaye ||
One who knows the ^zg-veda, one who knows the Yajur-veda, and one who knows the Sama-veda, shall be known (to form) an assembly consisting of at least three members (and competent) to decide doubtful points of law.
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Even that which one Brāhmaṇa versed in the Veda declares to be law, must be considered (to have) supreme legal (force, but) not that which is proclaimed by myriads of ignorant men.
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The sin of him whom dunces, incarnations of Darkness, and unacquainted with the law, instruct (in his duty), falls, increased a hundredfold, on those who propound it.
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All that which is most efficacious for securing supreme bliss has been thus declared to you; a Brāhmaṇa who does not fall off from that obtains the most excellent state.. Thus did that worshipful deity disclose to me, through a desire of benefiting mankind, this whole most excellent secret of the sacred law.. Let (every Brāhmaṇa), concentrating his mind,) fully recognise in the Self all things, both the real/ and the unreal, for he who recognises the universe in the Self, does not give his heart to unrighteousness.
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The Self alone is the multitude of the gods, the universe rests on the Self; for the Self produces the connexion of these. embodied (spirits) with actions.
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Let him meditate on the ether as identical with the cavities (of the body), on the wind as iden-; tical with the organs of motions and of touch, on the most excellent light as the same with his digestive organs and his sight, on water as the same with the (corporeal) fluids, on the earth as the same with the solid parts (of his body);
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