{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/brk/brk39.htm","path":"hin/brk/brk39.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/brk/brk39.htm","text":"Brahma Knowledge, by L. D. Barnett, [1911]\nJ\u0101na\u015bruti Pautr\u0101ya\u1e47a was a devout giver, bestowing much largesse, preparing much food. He caused lodgings to be built everywhere, that he might have men everywhere fed. Now in the night there flew swans by. One swan said to another, \"Ho, ho, Dim-eye, Dim-eye! J\u0101na\u015bruti\n[paragraph continues] Pautr\u0101ya\u1e47a's splendour is outspread like that of the heavens; so touch it not, lest thou burn thyself.\"\nThe other answered him, \"Who forsooth is he of whom thou speakest as though he were Raikva of the Cart?\"\n\"What meanest thou by Raikva of the Cart?\"\n\"As the lower dice-throws fall under the winning four-throw, so whatsoever good deed the people do falls to him; of him who knows this and of that which he knows do I speak.\" 1\nJ\u0101na\u015bruti Pautr\u0101ya\u1e47a overheard this. When he rose up, he said to his chamberlain, \"Ho, thou speakest as of Raikva of the Cart 2; what meanest thou by Raikva of the Cart?\"\nThe chamberlain sought [Raikva], and came back, saying \"I have found him not.\" [J\u0101na\u015bruti] said to him, \"Ho, go for him in the place where a Brahman is to be sought.\"\n[Raikva] was under a waggon, scratching his scabs; and he 1 sat down before him, and said to him, \"Art thou Raikva of the Cart, my lord?\"\n\"Yea, I am,\" he answered.\nThe chamberlain came back, saying, \"I have found him.\"\nThen J\u0101na\u015bruti Pautr\u0101ya\u1e47a took six hundred kine, a golden chain, and a mule-car, and drew near to him, and said, \"Raikva, here are six hundred kine, a golden chain, and a mule-car; my lord, teach me the deity that thou worshippest.\"\nBut the other answered, \"Fie on thee, base fellow; keep them for thyself, with thy kine!\"\nThen J\u0101na\u015bruti Pautr\u0101ya\u1e47a took a thousand kine, a golden chain, a mule-car, and his daughter, and drew near to him, and said, \"Raikva, here are a thousand kine, a golden chain, a mule-car, a wife, and the village in which thou art sitting; my lord, teach me!\"\nHe lifted up her face, and said, \"He has brought these! Base fellow, with this face alone thou mightest have made me speak.\"\nThat is the place called Raikva-par\u1e47a in the land of the Mah\u0101v\u1e5bishas where he dwelt at his bidding.\nThus he said to him:\n\"The Wind in sooth is an ingatherer. When fire goes out, it sinks into the Wind. When the sun goes down, it sinks into the Wind. When\nthe moon goes down, it sinks into the Wind. When waters dry up, they sink into the Wind. For the Wind gathers in all these. Thus as to godhead.\nNow as to personality. The Breath is an in-gatherer. 1 When one sleeps, the speech sinks into the Breath, the eye into the Breath, the ear into the Breath, the mind into the Breath. For the Breath gathers in all these. These are the two ingatherers, the Wind among the gods and the Breath among the breaths.\nA Brahman-student begged alms of \u015aaunaka K\u0101peya and Abhiprat\u0101ri K\u0101kshaseni when their meal was set before them. They gave him nothing. He said:\nTo him forsooth who has this food it is not given.\"\nThen \u015aaunaka K\u0101peya, having pondered, answered him thus:\n\"So this is what we worship, O Brahman student.\n[paragraph continues] Give him alms!\" And they gave to him.\nThese in sooth are the ten, five and five 1; this is the four-throw. Therefore the ten, the four-throw, are in all parts of the world as food. This is Vir\u0101\u1e6d, eater of food; thereby all the world is seen. All the world is seen by him, he becomes an eater of food, who has this knowledge.\"\n80:1 Chh\u0101ndogya Upanishad, IV. 1-3.\n81:1 The Hindus know of four casts of the dice\u2014the k\u1e5bita, counting as four, the tret\u0101, counting as three, the dv\u0101para, counting as two, and the kali, reckoned as one; the k\u1e5bita outweighs all the other throws, and hence has the value of 10. Raikva has universal wisdom; hence the virtues of all other men are merely parts of his excellence, which includes them all.\n81:2 The chamberlain, after Hindu custom, had addressed him in strains of panegyric on his rising from bed.\n82:1 The chamberlain of J\u0101na\u015bruti\n83:1 See \u00a7 18.","title":"Brahma Knowledge: Part II. Some Texts of the Vendanta: XI...","type":"page"}