{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01112.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01112.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01112.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Then he said to them all: 'You eat your food, knowing that Vaisv\u00e2nara Self as if it were many. But he who worships the Vaisv\u00e2nara Self as a span long, and as 1 identical with himself, he eats food in all worlds, in all beings, in all Selfs.\n2. 'Of that Vaisv\u00e2nara Self the head is Sutegas (having good light), the eye Visvar\u00fbpa (multiform), the breath Prithagvartman (having various courses), the trunk Bahula (full), the bladder Rayi (wealth), the feet the earth, the chest the altar, the hairs the grass on the altar, the heart the G\u00e2rhapatya fire, the mind the Anv\u00e2h\u00e2rya fire, the mouth the \u00c2havan\u00eeya fire.\n88:1 The two words pr\u00e2desam\u00e2tra and abhivim\u00e2na are doubtful. The commentator explains the first in different ways, which are all more or less fanciful. He is measured or known (m\u00e2tra) as Self, p. 89 by means of heaven as his head and the earth as his feet, these being the pr\u00e2desas; or, in the mouth and the rest, which are instruments, he is known as without action himself; or, he has the length from heaven to earth, heaven and earth being called pr\u00e2desa, because they are taught. The interpretation, supported by the G\u00e2b\u00e2lasruti, that pr\u00e2desa is the measure from the forehead to the chin, he rejects. Abhivim\u00e2na is taken in the same meaning as abhim\u00e2na in the Ved\u00e2nta, seeing everything in oneself. Vaisv\u00e2nara is taken as the real Self of all beings, and, in the end, of all Selfs, and as thus to be known and worshipped.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad...","type":"page"}