{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01169.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01169.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01169.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. But Indra, before he had returned to the Devas, saw this difficulty. As this self (the shadow in the water) 2 is well adorned, when the body is well adorned, well dressed, when the body is well dressed, well cleaned, if the body is well cleaned, that self will also be blind, if the body is blind, lame, if the body is lame 3, crippled, if the body is crippled, and will perish in fact as soon as the body perishes. Therefore I see no good in this (doctrine).\n2. Taking fuel in his hand he came again as a pupil to Prag\u00e2pati. Prag\u00e2pati said to him: 'Maghavat (Indra), as you went away with Virokana, satisfied in your heart, for what purpose did you come back?'\nHe said: 'Sir, as this self (the shadow) is well adorned, when the body is well adorned, well dressed, when the body is well dressed, well cleaned, if the body is well cleaned, that self will also be blind, if the body is blind, lame, if the body is lame, crippled, if the body is crippled, and will perish in fact as soon as the body perishes. Therefore I see no good in this (doctrine).'\n3. 'So it is indeed, Maghavat,' replied Prag\u00e2pati; 'but I shall explain him (the true Self) further to you. Live with me another thirty-two years.'\nHe lived with him another thirty-two years, and then Prag\u00e2pati said:\n137:2 The commentator remarks that though both Indra and Virokana had mistaken the true import of what Prag\u00e2pati said, yet while Virokana took the body to be the Self, Indra thought that the Self was the shadow of the body.\n137:3 Sr\u00e2ma, lame, is explained by the commentator as one-eyed, ekanetra.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad...","type":"page"}