The Philosophy of the Upanishads c10.s2.t2.2

c10.s2.t2.2

To the antaryâmin of Bṛih. 3. 7 there corresponds in the “honey-doctrine” of Bṛih. 2. 5 the “mighty immortal spirit” (tejomaya amṛitamaya purusha), who dwells in all cosmical and psychical phenomenal forms, and therefore renders possible their mutual influence. Here also the valuable fundamental thought is presented in a form which for us has little attraction, in that the same stereotyped formula is repeated fourteen times in succession, a different idea being employed each time :—“This earth,” so the section begins, “is the honey of all living creatures, is the honey of all living creatures ; but that which on the earth that mighty immortal spirit is, and that which in relation to the self that corporeal mighty immortal spirit is, it is even that which is the soul (âtman) here. This is the immortal, this is Brahman, this the universe.” The same which is here affirmed of earth and body is then further affirmed, with invariable repetition of the same formula, of water and seed, fire and speech, wind and breath, sun and eye, etc. The eye is nourished (exists) by the sun, and the sun by the eye (it would not be there if no eye beheld it), and this mutual dependence is only possible because in both the same mighty immortal spirit, *i.e.* the âtman, dwells.¹