THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com

""""""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 71(Trans.)Prajapati said : The Self which is free from sin, freedfrom old age, from death and grief, from hunger and thirst,which desires nothing but what is to be desired, imaginesnothing but what is to be imagined, that it is which wemust search out, that it is which we must try to understand.He who has searched out that Self and has understood itobtains all worlds and all desires."Sarvam evedam avarn bhagava atmanam pasyava alomabhyaanakhebhyah pratirupamiti."Chand. Up.viii. 8. i.(Trans.)We both see the Self thus All, a representation even tothe very hairs and nails.We only say that the Chan. Up. maybe taken tobe the chief representative of this stage of thought.It of course is found in almost all the other Upanisadsas well, and contributes the largest bulk of thewhole Aupanisadic literature. Even the Brh. Up.,which we have taken to be the chief exponent ofpure idealism, contains many passages agreeing withthe pantheistic conception.Brahma tarn paradat yo anyatra atmano Brahmaveda . . . sarvam yad ayam atma."*Brh. Up. ii. 4. 6. Cf. Ibid. iv. 5. 7.Brahmaivedam sarvam." Brh. Up. ii. 5. 2.Brahmaitat sarvam." Ibid. v. 3. i.i.e.,All this is Brahman.Ayam va atma sarvesam bhutanam lokah."Brh. Up. i. 4. 16.i.e.,This Atman is the support of all creatures.