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CHAPTER X
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3) then follows the doctrine of the personal 'Lord, who is the maker, the Person, who has his birth in _brahma' (purusho brahmayonis_).

That this Upanishad is pantheistic is plain from 3.2.6, where Ved[=a]nta and Yoga are named.

According to this tract the wise go to _brahma_ or to ego (3.2.9 and 1.2.

11), while fools go to heaven and return again.
On the same plane stands the [=I]c[=a], where _[=a]tm[=a]_, ego, Spirit, is the True, the Lord, and is in the sun.

Opposed to each other here are 'darkness' and 'immortality,' as fruit, respectively, of ignorance and wisdom.
In the K[=a]ush[=i]taki Upanishad, taken with the meaning put into it by the commentators, the wise man goes to a very different sort of _brahma_--one where he is met by nymphs, and rejoices in a kind of heaven.


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