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THE UJOOR VED.
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but man may obtain a knowledge of the soul through his
knowledge of God.
No ignorant man can, in a perfect manner, know the
state of the existence of that God whose food is all
things even the Brahmu and the Kshutru ; (that is, who
destroys every object bearing figure and appellation) ; and
who consumes death itself even as butter.
The end of the second Section of the first Chapter
{2nd Bulee.)
God and the soul* entering into the heart, the
excellent divine abode, consume, while residing in
the body, the necessary consequences of its actions;
that is, the latter is rewarded or punished according to
its good or evil actions, and the former witnesses all those
events. Those who have a knowledge of God, consider
the former as light and the latter as shade : the observers
of external rites also, as well as those who have collected
fire three times for worship, believe the same.
We can know and collect fire, which is a bridge to
the observers of rites ; and can know the eternal and
fearless God, who is the conveyer of those who wish to
cross the ocean of ignorance. Consider the soul as a j
rider the body as a car, the intellect its driver, the mind
as its rei^n, the external senses are called the horses
restrained by the mind, external objects are the roads:
so wise men believe the soul united with the body, the
* The word soul here means the human soul, feebatma ;
but generally in these translations it is used for Paramata the
Great Soul.—ED.
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but man may obtain a knowledge of the soul through his
knowledge of God.
No ignorant man can, in a perfect manner, know the
state of the existence of that God whose food is all
things even the Brahmu and the Kshutru ; (that is, who
destroys every object bearing figure and appellation) ; and
who consumes death itself even as butter.
The end of the second Section of the first Chapter
{2nd Bulee.)
God and the soul* entering into the heart, the
excellent divine abode, consume, while residing in
the body, the necessary consequences of its actions;
that is, the latter is rewarded or punished according to
its good or evil actions, and the former witnesses all those
events. Those who have a knowledge of God, consider
the former as light and the latter as shade : the observers
of external rites also, as well as those who have collected
fire three times for worship, believe the same.
We can know and collect fire, which is a bridge to
the observers of rites ; and can know the eternal and
fearless God, who is the conveyer of those who wish to
cross the ocean of ignorance. Consider the soul as a j
rider the body as a car, the intellect its driver, the mind
as its rei^n, the external senses are called the horses
restrained by the mind, external objects are the roads:
so wise men believe the soul united with the body, the
* The word soul here means the human soul, feebatma ;
but generally in these translations it is used for Paramata the
Great Soul.—ED.