Translation of an abridgement of the Vedant, or, resolution of all the Veds ... likewise a translation of the Cena Upanishad, one of the chapters of the Sama Veda; according to the gloss of ... Shancaracharya / [Edited by John Digby].

  • Ram Mohan Roy
Date:
1817
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Credit: Translation of an abridgement of the Vedant, or, resolution of all the Veds ... likewise a translation of the Cena Upanishad, one of the chapters of the Sama Veda; according to the gloss of ... Shancaracharya / [Edited by John Digby]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UPANISHAD OF 1st. WHO is he [asks a Pupil of his Spiritual Father] under whose sole will the Intellectual Power makes its approach to different objects? Who is he, under whose authority, Breath, the primitive power in the body, makes its operation? Who is he, by whose direction, language is regularly pronounced? And who is that immaterial being, that applies vision and hearing to their respective objects? 2d. He [ansivers the spiritual parent,] who is the sense of the sense of hearing; the intellect of the intellect; the essential cause of lan¬ guage; the breath of breath; the sense of the sense of vision ;—This is the being, concerning whom you would enquire:—Learned men having relinquished the notion of self-independence, and self-consideration, from knowing the Supreme understanding to be the sole source of sense, enjoy everlasting beatitude, after their departure from this world. 3d. Hence no vision can approach him ; no language can describe him ; no intellectual power can compass or determine him. We know nothing of how the Supreme Being should be explained : He is be¬ yond all that is within the reach of comprehension, and also beyond nature, which is above conception. Our ancient spiritual parents have thus explained him to us.
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