The Philosophy of the Upanishads c9.s1.t2.2

c9.s1.t2.2

There is a note almost of mockery in Bṛih. 1. 4. 10 when it is said :—" He who worships another divinity (than the âtman), and says ‘it is one and I am another,’ is not wise, but he is like a house-dog of the gods. Therefore just as many house-dogs are useful to men, every individual man is useful to the gods. Now the theft of only one house-dog is displeasing, how much more of many? Therefore it is displeasing to them that men do not know this." The remark of Yâjñavalkhya also, in Bṛih. 3. 9. 6, sounds very contemptuous :—" What is the sacrifice ?—brute beasts!" nor is it less so in Bṛih. 3. 9. 21, where it is said that Yama (the god of the dead) has his abode in the sacrifice, but the sacrifice in the fees.