The Hindu Temple v1.c6.12

v1.c6.12

The play of manifestation is not a passion play; the sacrifice in which the Puruṣa is the offering is performed on the ‘bhūmi’. “With the sacrifice the gods sacrificed to the sacrifice” (RV. X. 90. 16). Part by part the Puruṣa sacrifices himself into existence, the gods are born from him, from his mind the moon, from his eye the sun, from his mouth the fire, from his breath the air and from his feet the earth. His being is given up to them and spent in them as far as he enters into manifestation; in as far as he is an active part of this all offered sacrifice of himself he is called Prajāpati, lord of progeny (prajā), totality of existence. He spends himself in an ever renewed, ever proceeding sacrifice by which the universe subsists. It takes place in time; time fathers it; is one with Prajāpati (the year; Ś.B. VII. 1. 2. 11) and by his own sacrifice outlasts death, the principle of all form, of all that has definition and thus is finite.⁴