idaṁ vai tan madhu dadhyaṅṅ ātharvano' śvibhyām uvāca, tad etad ṛṣiḥ paśyann avocat: rῡpaṁ rῡpaṁ pratirῡpo babhῡva, tad asya rῡpam praticakṣaṇāya; indro māyābhiḥ puru-rῡpa īyate. yuktā hy asya harayaḥ śatā daśa iti. ayaṁ vai harayaḥ, ayaṁ vai daśa ca sahasrāṇi bahῡni cānantāni ca, tad etad brahmāpῡrvam, anaparam, anantaram, abāhyam, ayam ātmā brahma sarvānubhῡḥ, ity anuśāsanam. || 2.5.19 ||19 . This is that meditation on things mutually helpful which Dadhyac , versed in the Atharva-Veda , taught the Asvins . Perceiving this the Rsi said , " ( He ) transformed Himself in accordance with each form ; that form of His was for the sake of making Him known . The Lord on account of Maya , ( notions superimposed by ignorance ) is perceived as manifold , for to Him are yoked ten organs , nay hundreds of them . He is the organs ; He is ten , and thousands‚ — many , and infinite . That Brahman is without prior or posterior , without interior or exterior . This self , the perceiver of everything , is Brahman . " This is the teaching .
|| BHASYA || : This is that meditation , etc , — is to be explained as before .
( He ) transformed Himself in accordance with each form , or ( to put it differently ) assumed the likeness of each form .
A son has the same form as , or resembles , his parents . A quadruped is not born of bipeds , nor vice versa .
The same Lord , in the process of manifesting name and form , " transformed Himself in accordance with each form " .
Why did He come in so many forms ? " That form of His was for the sake of making Him known . " Were name and form not manifested , the transcendent nature of this Self as Pure Intelligence would not be known .
When , however , name and form are manifested as the body and organs , it is possible to know Its nature . The Lord on account of Maya or diverse knowledge , or ( to give an alternative meaning ) the false identifications created by name , form and the elements , not in truth , " is perceived as manifold " , because of these notions superimposed by ignorance , although He is ever the same Pure Intelligence .
Why ? For to Him are yoked , like horses to a chariot , ten organs — called " Hari " because they draw — " nay , hundreds of them " , for the purpose of revealing their objects ; " hundreds " , because there are a great many beings . Since there are a large number of sense-objects ( the Supreme Self appears as manifold ) . It is to reveal them , and not the Self , that the organs are yoked .
As the Katha Upanisad says , " The self-born Lord injured the organs by making them outgoing in their tendencies " ( IV . 1 ) .
Therefore the Self is known not in Its true nature as homogeneous Pure Intelligence , but merely as the sense-objects .
QUESTION : Then this Lord is one entity , and the organs another ?
REPLY : No ; " He is the organs ; He is ten and thousands — many and infinite " — because there are an infinite number of beings .
In short , that Brahman which is the self is without prior , ie cause , or posterior , ie effect , without interior or exterior , ie it has no other species within It or without It .
What is this homogeneous Brahman ? This self . What is it ?
The inner self that sees , hears , thinks , understands , knows ; the perceiver of everything , because as the self of all it perceives everything .
This is the teaching of all Vedanta texts — the gist of them . It leads to immortality and fearlessness . The import of the scriptures has been fully dealt with
( He ) transformed Himself in accordance with each form , or ( to put it differently ) assumed the likeness of each form .
A son has the same form as , or resembles , his parents . A quadruped is not born of bipeds , nor vice versa .
The same Lord , in the process of manifesting name and form , " transformed Himself in accordance with each form " .
Why did He come in so many forms ? " That form of His was for the sake of making Him known . " Were name and form not manifested , the transcendent nature of this Self as Pure Intelligence would not be known .
When , however , name and form are manifested as the body and organs , it is possible to know Its nature . The Lord on account of Maya or diverse knowledge , or ( to give an alternative meaning ) the false identifications created by name , form and the elements , not in truth , " is perceived as manifold " , because of these notions superimposed by ignorance , although He is ever the same Pure Intelligence .
Why ? For to Him are yoked , like horses to a chariot , ten organs — called " Hari " because they draw — " nay , hundreds of them " , for the purpose of revealing their objects ; " hundreds " , because there are a great many beings . Since there are a large number of sense-objects ( the Supreme Self appears as manifold ) . It is to reveal them , and not the Self , that the organs are yoked .
As the Katha Upanisad says , " The self-born Lord injured the organs by making them outgoing in their tendencies " ( IV . 1 ) .
Therefore the Self is known not in Its true nature as homogeneous Pure Intelligence , but merely as the sense-objects .
QUESTION : Then this Lord is one entity , and the organs another ?
REPLY : No ; " He is the organs ; He is ten and thousands — many and infinite " — because there are an infinite number of beings .
In short , that Brahman which is the self is without prior , ie cause , or posterior , ie effect , without interior or exterior , ie it has no other species within It or without It .
What is this homogeneous Brahman ? This self . What is it ?
The inner self that sees , hears , thinks , understands , knows ; the perceiver of everything , because as the self of all it perceives everything .
This is the teaching of all Vedanta texts — the gist of them . It leads to immortality and fearlessness . The import of the scriptures has been fully dealt with
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