37/83 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. Opposed to each other here are 'darkness' and 'immortality,' as fruit, respectively, of ignorance and wisdom. |