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Sukesas Bhâradvâga, and Saivya Satyakâma, and Sauryâyanin Gârgya, and Kausalya Âsvalâyana, and Bhârgava Vaidarbhi, an…
That Rishi said to them: "Stay here a year longer, with penance, abstinence, and faith; then you may ask questions ac…
Then Kabandhin Kâtyâyana approached him and asked: "Sir, from whence may these creatures be born?"
He replied: "Pragâpati (the lord of creatures) was desirous of creatures (pragâh). He performed penance, and having p…
The sun is spirit, matter is the moon. All this, what has body and what has no body, is matter, and therefore body in…
Now Âditya, the sun, when he rises, goes toward the East, and thus receives the Eastern spirits into his rays. And wh…
Thus he rises, as Vaisvânara, (belonging to all men,) assuming all forms, as spirit, as fire. This has been said in t…
(They knew) him who assumes all forms, the golden, who knows all things, who ascends highest, alone in his splendour,…
The year indeed is Pragâpati, and there are two paths thereof, the Southern and the Northern. Now those who here beli…
But those who have sought the Self by penance, abstinence, faith, and knowledge, gain by the Northern path Âditya, th…
Some call him the father with five feet (the five seasons), and with twelve shapes (the twelve months), the giver of …
The month is Pragâpati; its dark half is matter, its bright half spirit. Therefore some Rishis perform sacrifice in t…
Day and Night are Pragâpati; its day is spirit, its night matter. Those who unite in love by day waste their spirit, …
Food is Pragâpati. Hence proceeds seed, and from it these creatures are born.
Those therefore who observe this rule of Pragâpati (as laid down in §13), produce a pair, and to them belongs this Br…
To them belongs that pure Brahma-world, to them, namely, in whom there is nothing crooked, nothing false, and no guile."