IV ADHYAYA, 2 BRAHMAJVA, 3. 1 59
furnished by these Upanishads 1 . You are honour- able, and wealthy, you have learnt the Vedas and been told the Upanishads. Whither then will you go when departing hence?'
kanaka Vaideha said: 'Sir, I do not know whither I shall go/
Y&£#avalkya said : ' Then I shall tell you this, whither you will go/
kanaka Vaideha said : ' Tell it, Sir/
2. Y&£*«avalkya said : * That person who is in the right eye 2 , he is called Indha, and him who is Indha they call indeed 3 Indra mysteriously, for the gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident.
3. ' Now that which in the shape of a person is in the right eye, is his wife, Vir&£* 4 . Their meeting- place 6 is the ether within the heart, and their food the red lump within the heart. Again, their covering 6 is that which is like net-work within the heart, and the road on which they move (from sleep to waking) is the artery that rises upwards from the heart. Like a hair divided into a thousand parts, so are the veins of it, which are called Hita 7 , placed
1 This refers to the preceding doctrines which had been commu- nicated to kanaka by other teachers, and particularly to the up&sanas of Brahman as knowledge, dear, true, endless, bliss, and certainty.
2 See also Maitr. Up. VII, p. 216.
8 The Madhyandinas read parokshe»eva, but the commentator explains iva by eva. See also Ait. Up. I, 3, 14.
- Indra is called by the commentator Vairvinara, and his wife
Vira^. This couple, in a waking state, is Vwva ; in sleep, Tai^asa.
6 Samstava, lit. the place where they sing praises together, that is, where they meet. ♦
6 Pravarawa may also mean hiding-place, retreat.
7 Hita, a name frequently given to these n&fis; see IV, 3, 20; Kh&nd. Up. VI, 5, 3, comm.; Kaush. Up. IV, 20. See also Ka/yfca Up. VI, 16.
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