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128 B.R/HADARA2VYAKA-UPANISHAD.

Yd^avalkya replied : * Thirty-two journeys of the car of the sun is this world. The earth surrounds it on every side, twice as large, and the ocean surrounds this earth on every side, twice as large. Now there is between 1 them a space as large as the edge of a razor or the wing of a mosquito. Indra, having become a bird, handed them (through the space) to V£yu (the air), and Vdyu (the air), holding them within himself, conveyed them to where they dwell who have performed a horse-sacrifice. Some- what in this way did he praise Viyu indeed. There- fore V&yu (air) is everything by itself, and Viyu is all things together. He who knows this, conquers death/ After that Bhu^yu L£hy4yani held his peace.

Fourth Brahma^a 2 .

tf i. Then Ushasta ^fdkriya^a asked. 'Y&f#aval- kya/ he said, ' tell me the Brahman which is visible, not invisible 3 , the Self (dtman), who is within all/

YA^avalkya replied: 'This, thy Self, who is within all/

4 Which Self, O Yi^avalkya, is within all ?' Yi^avalkya replied : ' He who breathes in the up-breathing, he is thy Self, and within all He who breathes in the down-breathing, he is thy Self, and within all. He who breathes in the on-breathing, he is thy Self, and within all. He who breathes in

1 The commentator explains that this small space or hole is between the two halves of the mundane egg.

2 M&dhyandina text, p. 107 1. It follows after what is here the fifth Br£hma»a, treating of Kaho</a Kaushitakeya.

8 Deussen, Ved&nta, p. 163, translates, 'das immanente, nicht transcendente Brahman/ which is right, but too modern.

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