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"52 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAsakmiyad grahanaya, dundubhes tu grahanena dundubhyaghatasyava sabdo grhltah." Brh. Up. ii. 4. y. 1i.e.,As in the midst of drum-beating one is unable to graspthe outer sounds, but on grasping the drum itself the soundproduced by the drum-beating isalso grasped.A most remarkable passage, which in the clearestphraseology endorses the conception of Maya, isfound in Brh. ii. 4. 14. It runs thusYatra hi dvaitam iva bhavati tad itara itaram jighratitad itara itaram pasyati tad itara itaram srnoti tad itaraitaram abhivadati tad itara itaram manute tad itara itaramvijanati, yatra va asya sarvam atmaivabhut tat kena kamjighret tat kena kam pasyet tat kena kam srnuyat tat kenakam abhivadet tat kena kam manvita tat kena kam vij anlyadyenedam sarvam vijanati tam kena vijamyad vijnataramare kena vijamyad iti." Brh. Up. ii. 4. 14. 2(Trans.)For where there is duality, as it were, there sees anotheranother thing, there smells another another thing, therehears another another thing, there speaks another of anotherthing, there thinks another of another thing, there knowsanother another thing ;but where all has become nothingbut the Atman, there how can one smell anything, how seeanything, how hear anything, how speak of anything, howthink of anything, how know anything. By what shall oneknow him, by whom knows one this all ?By what shallone know the knower ?1Cf. also Ibid., ii. 4. 8. The same passage is again foundin iv. 5. 8-10.8This famous passage reappears in Brh. Up. iv. 5. 15,with slight alterations.