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M00NDUK-0PUNITHUD OF THE
tion of the peculiar terms of the Veds, Ch'hundus or
prosody, and Jyotish or astronomy : which all belong
to the inferior kind of knowledge. Now the superior
kind is conveyed by the Oopunishuds and is that through
which absorption into the eternal Supreme Being may
be obtained. That Supreme Being, who is the subject of
the superior learning, is beyond the apprehension of
the senses, and out of the reach of the corporeal organs
of action, and is without origin, colour, or magnitude
.and has neither eye nor ear, nor has he hand or foot.
He is everlasting, all-pervading, omnipresent, absolutely
incorporeal, unchangeable, and it is he whom wise men
consider as the origin of the universe. In the same
■way as the cobweb is created and absorbed by the
spider independently of exterior origin, as vegetables
proceed from the earth, and hair and nails from animate
•creatures, so the Universe is produced by the eternal
Supreme Being.
From his omniscience the Supreme Being resolves
'to create the Universe. Then nature, the apparent
cause of the world, is produced by him. From her the
prior operating sensitive particle of the world, styled
Bruhma, the source of the faculties, proceeds. From
.the faculties the five elements are produced; thence
spring the seven divisions of the world, whereon cere-
monial rites, with their consequences, are brought forth.
By him who knows all things, collectively and distinctly,
whose knowledge and will are the only means of all
his actions, Bruhma, name, and form, and all that
vegetates are produced,
M00NDUK-0PUNITHUD OF THE
tion of the peculiar terms of the Veds, Ch'hundus or
prosody, and Jyotish or astronomy : which all belong
to the inferior kind of knowledge. Now the superior
kind is conveyed by the Oopunishuds and is that through
which absorption into the eternal Supreme Being may
be obtained. That Supreme Being, who is the subject of
the superior learning, is beyond the apprehension of
the senses, and out of the reach of the corporeal organs
of action, and is without origin, colour, or magnitude
.and has neither eye nor ear, nor has he hand or foot.
He is everlasting, all-pervading, omnipresent, absolutely
incorporeal, unchangeable, and it is he whom wise men
consider as the origin of the universe. In the same
■way as the cobweb is created and absorbed by the
spider independently of exterior origin, as vegetables
proceed from the earth, and hair and nails from animate
•creatures, so the Universe is produced by the eternal
Supreme Being.
From his omniscience the Supreme Being resolves
'to create the Universe. Then nature, the apparent
cause of the world, is produced by him. From her the
prior operating sensitive particle of the world, styled
Bruhma, the source of the faculties, proceeds. From
.the faculties the five elements are produced; thence
spring the seven divisions of the world, whereon cere-
monial rites, with their consequences, are brought forth.
By him who knows all things, collectively and distinctly,
whose knowledge and will are the only means of all
his actions, Bruhma, name, and form, and all that
vegetates are produced,