A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c11.199

c11.199

In the 30th verse of the same hymn we read: "Breathing lies the quick-moving life, heaving, yet firm, in the midst of its abodes. The living one walks through the powers of the dead: the immortal is the brother of the mortal." Sometimes when these oracular sayings have been pronounced, the poet claims his due. "One who had eyes," he says, "saw it; the blind will not understand it. A poet, who is a boy, he has perceived it; he who understands it will be the father of his father."