{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe15/sbe15065.htm","path":"hin/sbe15/sbe15065.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15065.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Then G\u00e2ratk\u00e2rava \u00c2rtabh\u00e2ga 2 asked. 'Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya,' he said, 'how many Grahas are there, and how many Atigrahas 3?'\n'Eight Grahas,' he replied,' and eight Atigrahas.'\n'And what are these eight Grahas and eight Atigrahas?'\n2. 'Pr\u00e2na (breath) is one Graha, and that is seized by Ap\u00e2na (down-breathing) as the Atigr\u00e2ha 4, for one smells with the Ap\u00e2na.'\n3. 'Speech (v\u00e2k) is one Graha, and that is seized by name (n\u00e2man) as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with speech one pronounces names.\n4. 'The tongue is one Graha, and that is seized by taste as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with the tongue one perceives tastes.'\n5. 'The eye is one Graha, and that is seized by form as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with the eye one sees forms.'\n6. 'The ear is one Graha, and that is seized by sound as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with the ear one hears sounds.'\n7. 'The mind is one Graha, and that is seized by\ndesire as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with the mind one desires desires.'\n8. 'The arms are one Graha, and these are seized by work as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with the arms one works work.'\n9. 'The skin is one Graha, and that is seized by touch as the Atigr\u00e2ha, for with the skin one perceives touch. These are the eight Grahas and the eight Atigrahas.'\n10. 'Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya,' he said, 'everything is the food of death. What then is the deity to whom death is food?'\n'Fire (agni) is death, and that is the food of water. Death is conquered again.'\n11. 'Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya,' he said, 'when such a person (a sage) dies, do the vital breaths (pr\u00e2nas) move out of him or no?'\n'No,' replied Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya; 'they are gathered up in him, he swells, he is inflated, and thus inflated the dead lies at rest.'\n12. 'Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya,' he said, 'when such a man dies, what does not leave him?'\n'The name,' he replied; 'for the name is endless, the Visvedevas are endless, and by it he gains the endless world.'\n13. 'Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya,' he said,' when the speech of this dead person enters into the fire 1, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing into space, into the earth the body, into the ether the self, into the shrubs the hairs of the body, into the trees the hairs of the head, when the\nblood and the seed are deposited in the water, where is then that person?'\nY\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya said: 'Take my hand, my friend. We two alone shall know of this; let this question of ours not be (discussed) in public.' Then these two went out and argued, and what they said was karman (work), what they praised was karman 1, viz. that a man becomes good by good work, and bad by bad work. After that G\u00e2ratk\u00e2rava \u00c2rtabh\u00e2ga held his peace.\n125:1 M\u00e2dhyandina text, p. 1069.\n125:2 A descendant of Ritabh\u00e2ga of the family of Garatk\u00e2ru.\n125:3 Graha is probably meant originally in its usual sacrificial sense, as a vessel for offering oblations. But its secondary meaning, in which it is here taken, is a taker, a grasper, i.e. an organ of sense, while atigraha is intended for that which is grasped, i.e. an object of sense.\n125:4 Here the \u00e2 is long, kh\u00e2ndasatv\u00e2t.\n126:1 The commentator explains purusha here by asamyagdarsin, one who does not know the whole truth. See also Deussen, Ved\u00e2nta, p. 405, and p. 399, note.\n127:1 What is intended is that the sams\u00e2ra continues by means of karman, while karman by itself never leads to moksha.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15): Brihad\u00e2ranyaka Upanishad: III, 2","type":"page"}