A new approach to the Vedas : an essay in translation and exegesis, S. 60

II PORTIONS OF THE MAITRI UPANISAD

The following translation of parts of the Mairi Upanisad, describing the procession of the Tree of Life, as a Burning Bush, is offered without comment :

SIXTH PRAPATHAKA, I-4

He bears himself twofold: as the Spirit here, (prana) and yonder as the Supernal-Sun (dditya).**

Likewise, indeed, are twain these paths of his, an inner and an outer; and their revolution is accomplished with the day and night. Yonder Supernal-Sun is verily the outer-Self, the Spirit is the inner-Self. Hence, the motion of the innerSelf is to be measured by that of the outer Self. For thus has it been said: ‘““ Whosoever is a Comprehensor, freed from guilt, an over-seer of the senses, of washed-white intellect, whose looking is within, is even He.”’ And conversely, the motion of the outer-Self is to be measured by that of the inner-Self. For thus has it been said: “ Lo, that Golden Person who is within the Supernal-Sun, and who from his golden station looks down upon this earth, is even He who dwells consuming food in the Lotus of the Heart.***

He who dwells existent in the Lotus of the

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