The Philosophy of the Upanishads c12.s2.t3.22

c12.s2.t3.22

The doubts which in view of the abrupt form of the paragraph might be felt as to the correctness of this interpretation, are completely removed by the unmistakable teaching which Yâjñavalkhya imparts to Janaka in Bṛih. 4. 3–4. After that return to a new existence upon earth has been taught here as the fate of the kâmayamâna, “consumed by desire” (one who therefore does not yet know himself as the âtman), there follow words than which deeper, truer, more noble were never uttered by human lips:—