1 60 BK/HADARAiTVrAKA-UPANISH AD.
firmly within the heart. Through these indeed that (food) flows on flowing, and he (the Tai^asa) receives as it were purer food 1 than the corporeal Self (the VaLrv&nara).
4. 'His (the Tai^asa's) Eastern quarter are the pr£#as (breath) which go to the East;
- His Southern quarter are the pr&#as which go
to the South ;
' His Western quarter are the pr£»as which go to the West ;
'His Northern quarter are the pr&^as which go to the North ;
1 His Upper (Zenith) quarter are the pr£#as which go upward;
' His Lower (Nadir) quarter are the pr&#as which go downward ;
' All the quarters are all the pr&oas. And he (the Atman in that state) can only be described by No 2 , no ! He is incomprehensible, for he cannot be com- prehended ; he is undecaying, for he cannot decay ; he is not attached, for he does not attach himself; he is unbound, he does not suffer, he does not perish. O kanaka, you have indeed reached fearlessness/ — thus said Y&£$avalkya.
Then kanaka said : ' May that fearlessness come to you also who teachest us fearlessness. I bow to you. Here are the Videhas, and here am I (thy slave)/
1 Dvivedaganga explains that food, when it is eaten, is first of all changed into the coarse food, which goes away downward, and into the subtler food. This subtler food is again divided into the middle juice that feeds the body, and the finest, which is called the red lump.
2 See Bnh. Up. II, 3, 6; IV, 9, 26.
Digitized by VjOOQ 1C
