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SECOND MUNDAKA.

FIRST Khanda

1. This is the truth. As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto fire^[1], fly forth a thousandfold, thus are various beings brought forth from the Imperishable, my friend, and return thither also.

2. That heavenly Person is without body, he is both without and within, not produced, without breath and without mind, pure, higher than the high Imperishable^[2].

3. From him (when entering on creation) is born breath, mind, and all organs of sense, ether, air, light, water, and the earth, the support of all.

4. Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed, the wind his breath, his heart the universe; from his feet came the earth; he is indeed the inner Self of all things^[3].

5. From him comes Agni (fire)^[4], the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed unto the woman. Thus many beings are begotten from the Person (purusha).

6. From him come the Rik, the Sâman, the

1. Cf. Brih. Âr. II, 1, 20.
2. The high Imperishable is here the creative, the higher the non-creative Brahman.
3. Called Vishnu and Virâg by the commentators.
4. There are five fires, those of heaven, rain, earth, man, and woman. Comm.