424) OS THE VEDAS, . 



* He [the universal soul] reflected " How can 

 this [body] exist without me ?" He considered by 

 which extremity he should penetrate. He thought, 

 *' If [without me] speech discourse, breath inhale, 

 and sight view; if hearing hear, skin feel, and 

 mind meditate; if deglutition swallow, and the 

 organ of generation perform its functions; then 

 who am I r" 



* Parting the suture [simcai], he penetrated by 

 this route. That openipg is called the suture (vi- 

 di'iti), and is the road to beatitude (ndndana) *. 



* Of that soul, the places of recreation are three; 

 and the modes of sleep, as many : this (pointing to 

 the' right eye) is a place of recreation; this (point- 

 hig to the throat) is [also] a situation of enjoy- 

 ment ; this (pointing to the heart) is [likewise] a 

 region of delight. 



' Thus born [as the animating spirit], he discri- 

 minated the elements, [remarking] " what else 

 [but him] can I here affirm [to exist];" and he con- 

 templated this [thinking] person f, the vast ex- 

 panse J, [exclaiming] it have I seen. Therefore 

 is he named it-seeing (idam-dra) : it-seeing 

 is indeed his name: and him, being it-seeing, 

 they call, by a remote appellation, Indra; for 



* Tlie Hindus believe, that the soul, or conscious life, enters 

 the Dody tbrouijh the sagittal suture; lodges in the brain; ancj 

 may contemplate, through the same opening, the divine perfec- 

 tions. Mind, or the reasoning faculty, is reckoned to be au 

 organ of the body, situated in the heart. 



+ Puruaha. 



X Brahme, or tlie great one. 



