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From it all this sprang. Thus, whatever Deva was awakened (so as to know Brahman), he indeed became that (Brahman); and the same with Rishis and men. The Rishi Vâmadeva saw and understood it, singing, 'I was Manu (moon), I was the sun.' Therefore now also he who thus knows that he is Brahman, becomes all this, and even the Devas cannot prevent it, for he himself is their Self. > Now if a man worships another deity, thinking the deity is one and he another, he does not know. He is like a beast for the Devas. For verily, as many beasts nourish a man, thus does every man nourish the Devas. If only one beast is taken away, it is not pleasant; how much more when many are taken! Therefore it is not pleasant to the Devas that men should know this. > — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) - [Previous: 1.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.1.4.9) - [Next: 1.4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.1.4.11) - [Up: 1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.1.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka~en-muller.1.4.10) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English ## Commentaries (7) - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka!sankara.89.1.16) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka!madhva.1.5.4) — Madhva, Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka!rangaramanuja.1.6.9.p6) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit - [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka*kanva!padapatha.1.4.10) — Sanskrit - [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka!raghavendra-tirtha.5.4.1) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit - [Mitākṣarā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka!nityananda-asrama.3.10) — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.10.1) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (20) - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c37.47) — P. 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