Khandogya Upanishad. Vii, 7
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"The Upanishads, Part 1 (sbe01)\", by Max Mller, [1879],
Seventh Kha\"N"D"A.
1. 'Understanding (vi"g"na) is better than reflection. Through understanding we understand the Rig-veda, the Ya"g"ur-veda, the Sma-veda, and as the fourth the tharvana, as the fifth the Itihsa-pur"n"a 1, the Veda of the Vedas, the Pitrya, the R"s"i, the Daiva, the Nidhi, the Vkovkya, the Ekyana, the Deva-vidy, the Brahma-vidy, the Bhta-vidy, the Kshatra-vidy, the Nakshatra-vidy, the Sarpa and Deva"g"ana-vidy, heaven, earth, air, ether, water, fire, gods, men, cattle, birds, herbs, trees, all beasts down to worms, midges, and ants; what is right and what is wrong; what is true and what is false; what is good and what is bad; what is pleasing and what is not pleasing; food and savour, this world and that, all this we understand through understanding. Meditate on understanding.
2. 'He who meditates on understanding as Brahman, reaches the worlds where there is understanding
p. 116
and knowledge 1; he is, as it were, lord and master as far as understanding reaches--he who meditates on understanding as Brahman.'
'Sir, is there something better than understanding?'
'Yes, there is something better than understanding.'
'Sir, tell it me.'
Footnotes
115:1 See before, p. 109.
116:1 The commentator takes vi"g"na here as understanding of sacred books, "g"na as cleverness with regard to other subjects.
"The Upanishads, Part 1 (sbe01)\", by Max Mller, [1879],
Seventh Kha\"N"D"A.
1. 'Understanding (vi"g"na) is better than reflection. Through understanding we understand the Rig-veda, the Ya"g"ur-veda, the Sma-veda, and as the fourth the tharvana, as the fifth the Itihsa-pur"n"a 1, the Veda of the Vedas, the Pitrya, the R"s"i, the Daiva, the Nidhi, the Vkovkya, the Ekyana, the Deva-vidy, the Brahma-vidy, the Bhta-vidy, the Kshatra-vidy, the Nakshatra-vidy, the Sarpa and Deva"g"ana-vidy, heaven, earth, air, ether, water, fire, gods, men, cattle, birds, herbs, trees, all beasts down to worms, midges, and ants; what is right and what is wrong; what is true and what is false; what is good and what is bad; what is pleasing and what is not pleasing; food and savour, this world and that, all this we understand through understanding. Meditate on understanding.
2. 'He who meditates on understanding as Brahman, reaches the worlds where there is understanding
p. 116
and knowledge 1; he is, as it were, lord and master as far as understanding reaches--he who meditates on understanding as Brahman.'
'Sir, is there something better than understanding?'
'Yes, there is something better than understanding.'
'Sir, tell it me.'
Footnotes
115:1 See before, p. 109.
116:1 The commentator takes vi"g"na here as understanding of sacred books, "g"na as cleverness with regard to other subjects.
