OR SACRED WRITINGS OF- THE HINDUS. 4^7 



has religious occupations in his family. But this 

 forms only tlie feet of the soul. Thy feet had 

 been lame," said the king, '* hadst thou not come 

 to me." 



' He thus addressed them [collectively] : " You 

 consider this universal soul, as it were an indivi- 

 dual being; and you partake of distinct enjoy- 

 ment. But he, who worships, as the universal 

 soul, that which is known by its [manifested] 

 portions, and is inferred [from consciousness], en- 

 joys nourishment in all worlds, in all beings, in 

 all souls : his head is splendid, like that of this 

 universal soul; his eye is similarly varied; his 

 breath is equally diffused ; his trunk is no less 

 abundant; his abdomen is alike full; and his feet 

 are the earth; his breast is the altar; his hair 

 is the sacred grass ; his heart, the household fire ; 

 his mind, the consecrated flame ; and his mouth, 

 the oblation. 



" The food, which first reaches him, should be 

 solemnly offered : and the first oblation, which he 

 makes, he should present with these words : " Be 

 this oblation to breath efficacious." Thus breath 

 is satisfied ; and, in that the e^e is satiate; and, 

 in the eye, the sun is content; and, in the sun, 

 the sky is gratified ; and, in the sky, heaven and 

 the sun, and whatever is dependant, become re- 

 plete: and after that, he himself [who eats] is fully 

 gratified with offspring and cattle; with vigour 

 proceeding from food, and splendour arising from 

 holy observances *. 



* Several similar paragraphs, respectinE; four oilier oblations, 

 so presented to oliier inspirations of air, vire here ontittetl for He 

 sake of breviiv. Tlie idkiu? of a mouUitiil, bv an oilhodox Hindu 

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