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If on the other hand it should not be allowed that Brahman differs in nature from avidya, then Brahman's nature itself is constituted by avidya, and the text defining Brahman as 'the True, knowledge, infinite' is contrary to sense.
Moreover the Sutra II, 3, 48 directly states the plurality of the individual Selfs. Moreover it is so stated in Smriti. Gi. For this reason also the soul must be held to be a part of Brahman. But if the soul is a part of Brahman, all the imperfections of the soul are Brahman's also! To this objection the next Sutra replies. But as in the case of light and so on. Not so is the highest.
Loud exclamations of woe, uttered by all creatures, were then heard on all sides. Its praises hymned by all, that splendour then entered Brahman's self. The Great grandsire, advancing forward, addressed that splendour which had assumed a form of the tallness of a span, saying, 'Welcome! And once more he uttered these words, 'Verily, Reciters attain to the same end with the yogins.
From all this it follows that the entire aggregate of things, intelligent and non- intelligent, has its Self in Brahman in so far as it constitutes Brahman's body.
The reward for perfect observance was Beatitude, or absorption into the being of Brahm, which was not existence as much as absolute rest." The Hindoo gave himself a moment's thought; proceeding, he said: "The part of a Brahman's life called the first order is his student life.
Grannie continued: The little boy went to school and learnt many lessons from his teachers, and as he grew up his class-fellows began to ask him: "Who is that beautiful lady who lives with you in the palace with the seven wings?" The Brahman's son was eager to know who she was. He could only remember how one day he had been gathering sticks, and a great disturbance arose.
After that, bestow upon king Yudhishthira the earth with her belt of seas, her towns and villages, and wealth, and from off whose surface all foes will have been removed. By that act, O Partha, do thou also win unrivalled fame." Let me have thy permission, as also Brahman's and Bhava's, and of all those that are conversant with Brahma."
The Brahman's wife thought that they were three friends or relations of her husband, who had come to pay a visit, and gave them a hearty welcome. And when she asked who they were, they also told her that they were connections of her husband. Then she asked them to have some dinner and they said that they would eat, provided that she used no salt in the cooking.
The writer has entered a railway car and accidentally touched a Brahman's water-pot under the seat, whereupon the disgusted owner seized the vessel and immediately poured out of the car window all its contents.
The later law books divide a Brahman's life into four stages or âśramas in which he was successively a student, a householder, a hermit and an ascetic . The third and fourth stages are not very clearly distinguished.
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