(3)
कतमे वसव
इति ।
अग्निश्चपृथिवी
च वायुश्चान्तरिक्षं चादित्यश्च द्यौश्च चन्द्रमाश्च नक्षत्राणि चैते वसवः एतेषु हीदं
सर्वं हितमिति तस्माद्वसव इति ॥३॥
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the Vasus?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Agni, Prthvee,
Vaayu, Antariksha, Aaditya, Dyau, Chandramaa, Nakshatras, these are the Vasus;
for in these (Vasus), all this (collection of living beings) is placed (abided
by); therefore they are called Vasus.
(These Vasus help the beings to live.)
(4)
कतमे
रुद्रा इति ।
दशेमे पुरुषे
प्राणाः आत्मैकादशः ।
ते यदास्माच्छरीरान्मर्त्यादुत्कामन्त्यथ
रोदयन्ति ।
तद्यद्रोदयन्ति
तस्माद्रुद्रा इति ॥४॥
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the Rudras?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Ten sense
organs with the mind as the eleventh.
When they depart
from the mortal body, they make (relatives and friends) cry (Rud).
Because they make them cry, they are called Rudras.
(5)
कतम आदित्या
इति ।
द्वादश वै मासाः
संवत्सरस्य एत आदित्याः
एते हीदं सर्वमाददाना
यन्ति ।
ते यदिदं सर्वमाददाना
यन्ति तस्मादादित्या इति ॥५॥
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the Aadityas?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Twelve months
of a year; these are the Aadityas; for they go off taking all this along with
them.
Because they go
taking all this along with them (Aada), they are called Aadityas.
(Time takes away everything.)
(6)
कतम इन्द्रः कतम प्रजापतिरिति ।
स्तनयित्नुरेवेन्द्रः
यज्ञ्नः प्रजापतिरिति ।
कतमः स्तनयित्नुरिति
।
अशनिरिति ।
कतमो यज्ञ्न
इति ।
पशव इति॥६॥
(Shaakalya asked)
“Which is Indra,
which is Prajaapati?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Thundering
Cloud itself is Indra, Yajna is Prajaapati.”
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which is the
thundering Cloud?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Lightning”
(Mind with flashing thoughts is the Indra that makes noise
with its nature of agitation. It is Indra, because the senses serve it like
servants.)
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which is
Yajna?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Living beings”
(The animals which make the Yajna fruitful are the Jeevas
with their unending Vaasanaas.)
(7)
कतमे षडिति
।
अग्निश्च पृथिवी
च वायुरन्तरिक्षं
चादित्यश्च
द्यौश्च एते षठ्
एते हीदं सर्वं
षडिति ॥७॥
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the six
(deities)?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Agni, Prthvee,
Vaayu, Antariksha, Aaditya, Dyau; these are the six;
because all
those are in this six.”
(Vasus are also included in these six.)
(8) (9)
कतमे ते त्रयो
देवाः इति ।
इम एव त्रयो
लोकाः
एषु हीमे सर्वे
देवा इति ।
कतमौ तौ द्वौ
देवाविति ।
अन्नं चैव प्राणश्चेति
।
कतमोऽध्यर्ध
इति ।
योऽयं पवत इति
॥८॥
तदाहुः यदयमेक
इवैव पवते ।
अथ कथमध्यर्ध
इति ।
यदस्मिन्निदं
सर्वमध्याध्र्नोत् तेनाध्यर्ध इति ।
कतम एको देव
इति । प्राण इति ।
स ब्रह्म त्यदित्याचक्षते
॥९॥
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the
three gods?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“These three
worlds alone; because in these are all gods comprised.
(Three states of Jaagrat, Svapna and Sushupti contain all
these deities.)
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the
two gods?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Food and
Praana”
(The two deities are the body which is maintained by food,
and the Praana which supports it; these two which comprise the embodied Jeeva,
contain all other deities.)
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which are the
one and the half?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“This that
blows;
they say ‘since
this blows as one substance, how can it be one and a half’; it is one and a
half because, through its presence, all this attain the glory.”
(Even the physical body is a conception of the mind; so what
is left back is that which blows.
What blows?
Unmanifest Brahman which moves as it were.
Unmanifest Brahman which is like Praana that moves as it
were.
But it is not ‘one’…! It is more than one; because it swells
as the perceived world and is known as Brahman.)
(Shaakalya
asked)
“Which is that
one God?”
(Yaajnavalkya
said)
“Praana; it is
Brahman which is called ‘Tyat’.
(It is Brahman which stretches forth as all this. It has no
name.
It is referred to as ‘That’.)
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