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96 INDIAN MYTH AND LEGEND
The lesson then follows. Men say, " Sacrifice to this,
sacrifice to this, sacrifice to one or the other god ?" But
these words are " not proper", because " He is really this
creation; for he verily is all the gods".
Thus the first Being, as a commentator remarked,
" whose nature comprehended all elements, who is eternal,
who is not conceived by thought, sprang forth by himself.
. . . He consumed all sins, for unless one is in a worldly
state he cannot consume sins. . . . Being mortal he
created immortals."x
From the myth of the chaos-giant Purusha we pass to
the higher pantheistic conception of Brahma, the soul of
the Universe.
1 The Brikad Aranyaka Upanhhad.
The lesson then follows. Men say, " Sacrifice to this,
sacrifice to this, sacrifice to one or the other god ?" But
these words are " not proper", because " He is really this
creation; for he verily is all the gods".
Thus the first Being, as a commentator remarked,
" whose nature comprehended all elements, who is eternal,
who is not conceived by thought, sprang forth by himself.
. . . He consumed all sins, for unless one is in a worldly
state he cannot consume sins. . . . Being mortal he
created immortals."x
From the myth of the chaos-giant Purusha we pass to
the higher pantheistic conception of Brahma, the soul of
the Universe.
1 The Brikad Aranyaka Upanhhad.