The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c40.s5.20

v2.c40.s5.20

Still more clearly inadequate are the identifications of Brahman with mind,⁹ which as in the Brāhmaṇas never achieves a decisive place of importance, and with more material concepts, such as the sun and as the ether. The sun is interesting, as it is clear that efforts were made—as in Egypt in the reform of Akhenaten—to penetrate beyond the mere physical sun to the man in the sun, with whom the dying man declares his identity.¹⁰ The real relation to the sun is, however, declared to be something above that,¹ and similarly against the conception of the absolute as there is set the view that the absolute is in the ether, and is the controller of the ether.²