39/158 The Rik and S[=a]man are Indra and are speech; the Yajus is Vishnu and mind' (_ib._ IV.6.7.1 ff.). An item follows that touches on a modern philosophical question. Apropos of speech and mind: 'Where speech (alone) existed everything was accomplished and known; but where mind (alone) existed nothing was accomplished or known' (_ib._ I.4.4. Mind and speech are male and female, and as yoke-fellows bear sacrificed to the gods; to be compared is the interesting dispute between mind and speech (_ib._ 5. |