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34 MOONDUK-OPUNISHUD OF THE
in his hand, to a spiritual teacher who is versed in the
doctrines of the Veds and has firm faith in God.
The wise teacher shall properly instruct his pupil so
devoted to him, freed from the importunities of
external senses, and possessed of tranquillity of mind,
in the knowledge through which he may know the
eternal Supreme Being.
End of the -first Moondukum.
He, the subject of the superior knowledge, alone is
true. As from a blazing fire thousands of sparks of
the same nature proceed, so from the eternal Supreme
Being (O beloved pupil) various souls come forth, and
again they return into him. He is immortal and without
form or figure, omnipresent, pervading external and
internal objects, unborn, without breath or individual
mind, pure and superior to eminently exalted nature.
From him the first sensitive particle, or the seed of
the universe, individual intellect, all the senses and
their objects, also vacuum, air, light, water, and the
^arth which contains all things, proceed.
Heaven is his head, and the sun and moon are
his eyes; space is his ears, the celebrated Veds are
his speech ; air is his breath, the world is his intellect,
and the earth is his feet; for he is the soul of the whole
universe.
By him the sky, which is illuminated by the sun,
is produced; clouds, which have their origin from the
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in his hand, to a spiritual teacher who is versed in the
doctrines of the Veds and has firm faith in God.
The wise teacher shall properly instruct his pupil so
devoted to him, freed from the importunities of
external senses, and possessed of tranquillity of mind,
in the knowledge through which he may know the
eternal Supreme Being.
End of the -first Moondukum.
He, the subject of the superior knowledge, alone is
true. As from a blazing fire thousands of sparks of
the same nature proceed, so from the eternal Supreme
Being (O beloved pupil) various souls come forth, and
again they return into him. He is immortal and without
form or figure, omnipresent, pervading external and
internal objects, unborn, without breath or individual
mind, pure and superior to eminently exalted nature.
From him the first sensitive particle, or the seed of
the universe, individual intellect, all the senses and
their objects, also vacuum, air, light, water, and the
^arth which contains all things, proceed.
Heaven is his head, and the sun and moon are
his eyes; space is his ears, the celebrated Veds are
his speech ; air is his breath, the world is his intellect,
and the earth is his feet; for he is the soul of the whole
universe.
By him the sky, which is illuminated by the sun,
is produced; clouds, which have their origin from the
«