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THE UJOOR VED.
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The world is a fig-tree of long duration, whose
origin is above, and the branch es of which, as different
species, are below. The origin alone is pure and
supreme; and he alone is eternal on whom all the
world rests, and independen tly of whom nothing can
exist. He is that existence which thou desiredst to
know.
God being eternal existence, the universe, what-
soever it is, exists and proceeds from him. He is the
£reat dread of all heavenly bodies, as if he were pre-
pared to strike them with thunderbolts ; so that none of
them can deviate from their respective courses established by
him. Those who know him as the eternal power acquire
absorption.
Through his fear fire supplies us with heat; and the
sun, through his fear, shines regularly; and also Indrur
and air, and fifthly, death, are through his fear con-
stantly in motion.
If man can acquire a knowledge of God in this
world, before the fall of his body, he becomes happy for
ever: Otherwise he assumes new forms in different
mansions. A knowledge of God shines on the purified
intellect in this world, as clearly as an object is seen by
reflection in a polished mirror: In the region of the
defied Progenitors of mankind it is viewed as obscurely
as objects perceived in the state of dreaming; and in
the mansion of Gundhurvus, in the same degree as the
reflection of an object on water ; but in the mansion of
Bruhma it appears as distinctly as the difference between
light and darkness.
A wise man, knowing the soul to be distinct from
the senses, which proceed from different origins, and
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The world is a fig-tree of long duration, whose
origin is above, and the branch es of which, as different
species, are below. The origin alone is pure and
supreme; and he alone is eternal on whom all the
world rests, and independen tly of whom nothing can
exist. He is that existence which thou desiredst to
know.
God being eternal existence, the universe, what-
soever it is, exists and proceeds from him. He is the
£reat dread of all heavenly bodies, as if he were pre-
pared to strike them with thunderbolts ; so that none of
them can deviate from their respective courses established by
him. Those who know him as the eternal power acquire
absorption.
Through his fear fire supplies us with heat; and the
sun, through his fear, shines regularly; and also Indrur
and air, and fifthly, death, are through his fear con-
stantly in motion.
If man can acquire a knowledge of God in this
world, before the fall of his body, he becomes happy for
ever: Otherwise he assumes new forms in different
mansions. A knowledge of God shines on the purified
intellect in this world, as clearly as an object is seen by
reflection in a polished mirror: In the region of the
defied Progenitors of mankind it is viewed as obscurely
as objects perceived in the state of dreaming; and in
the mansion of Gundhurvus, in the same degree as the
reflection of an object on water ; but in the mansion of
Bruhma it appears as distinctly as the difference between
light and darkness.
A wise man, knowing the soul to be distinct from
the senses, which proceed from different origins, and
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