{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe15/sbe15116.htm","path":"hin/sbe15/sbe15116.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15116.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Next follows Kuts\u00e2yana's hymn of praise:\n'Thou art Brahm\u00e2, and thou art Vishnu, thou art Rudra, thou Prag\u00e2pati 2, thou art Agni, Varuna, V\u00e2yu, thou art Indra, thou the Moon.\nThou art Anna 3 (the food or the eater), thou art Yama, thou art the Earth, thou art All, thou art the Imperishable. In thee all things exist in many forms, whether for their natural or for their own (higher) ends.\nLord of the Universe, glory to thee! Thou art the Self of All, thou art the maker of All, the enjoyer of All; thou art all life, and the lord of all pleasure and joy 4. Glory to thee, the tranquil, the deeply hidden, the incomprehensible, the immeasurable, without beginning and without end.'\n__________________\n2. 'In the beginning 5 darkness (tamas) alone was this. It was in the Highest, and, moved by the Highest, it becomes uneven. Thus it becomes obscurity\n(ragas) 1. Then this obscurity, being moved, becomes uneven. Thus it becomes goodness (sattva). Then this goodness, being moved, the essence flowed forth 2. This is that part (or state of Self) which is entirely intelligent, reflected in man (as the sun is in different vessels of water) knowing the body (kshetrag\u00f1a), attested by his conceiving, willing, and believing, it is Prag\u00e2pati, called Visva. His manifestations have been declared before 3. Now that part of him which belongs to darkness, that, O students 4, is he who is called Rudra. That part of him which belongs to obscurity, that, O students, is he who is called Brahm\u00e2. That part of him which belongs to goodness, that, O students, is he who is called Vishnu. He being one, becomes three, becomes eight 5, becomes eleven 6, becomes twelve, becomes infinite. Because 7 he thus came to be, he is the Being (neut.), he moves about, having entered all beings, he has become the Lord of all beings. He is the Self within and without, yes, within and without.'\n303:1 At the beginning of the fifth Prap\u00e2thaka my MS. gives the Slokas which in the printed edition are found in VI, 34, p. 178, Atreme slok\u00e2 bhavanti, yath\u00e2 nirindhano vahnir, &c., to nirvishayam smritam. Then follows as \u00a7 2, Atha yathedam Kautsy\u00e2yanistutis, tvam, &c.\n303:2 The commentator explains Brahm\u00e2 by Hiranyagarbha and Prag\u00e2pati by Vir\u00e2g.\n303:3 M. reads tvam Manus, tvam Yamas ka tvam, prithiv\u00ee tvam ath\u00e2kyutah, which is so clearly the right reading that it is difficult to understand how the mistakes arose which are presupposed by the commentary. See Taitt. Up. II, 2.\n303:4 M. reads visvakr\u00eed\u00e2ratih prabhuh, which seems better.\n303:5 M. reads tamo v\u00e2 idam ekam \u00e2sta tat paro sy\u00e2t tat pareneritam. It may have been tat pare 'sth\u00e2t.\n304:1 M. reads etad vai ragaso r\u00fbpam, which is better, or, at least, more in accordance with what follows.\n304:2 M. reads sattvam everitarasas sam pr\u00e2srivat.\n304:3 A reference to Maitr. Up. II, 5, would have saved the commentator much trouble. M. has a better text. It leaves out visveti or visv\u00e2khyas after prag\u00e2pati, which may be wrong, but then goes on: tasya prokt\u00e2 agry\u00e2s tanavo brahm\u00e2 rudro vishnur iti. In enumerating the three agry\u00e2s tanavah, however, M. is less consistent, for it begins with ragas or Brahm\u00e2, then goes on to tamas or Rudra, and ends with sattva or Vishnu. The Anubh\u00fbtiprak\u00e2sa, verse 142, has the right succession.\n304:4 This vocative, brahmak\u00e2rino, is always left out in M.\n304:5 The five pr\u00e2nas, the sun, moon, and asterisms.\n304:6 The eleven organs of sense and action, which, by dividing manas and buddhi, become twelve.\n304:7 M. reads aparimitadh\u00e2 kodbh\u00fbtatv\u00e2d bh\u00fbteshu karati pravishtah sarvabh\u00fbt\u00e2n\u00e2m.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15): Maitr\u00e2yana Br\u00e2hmana Upanishad: Fifth Prap\u00e2thaka","type":"page"}