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136 136 Khandogya-upanishad.

Eighth Khanda.

1. 'Look at your Self in a pan of water, and whatever you do not understand of your Self 1, come and tell me.' They looked in the water-pan. Then Pragapati said to them : ' What do you see ?' They said: 'We both see the self thus altogether, a picture even to the very hairs and nails'

2. Pragapati said to them: 'After you have adorned yourselves, have put on your best clothes and cleaned yourselves, look again into the water-pan' They, after having adorned themselves, having put on their best clothes and cleaned themselves, looked into the water-pan. Pragapati said: ' What do you see ? '

3. They said : ' Just as we are, well adorned, with our best clothes and clean, thus we are both there, Sir, well adorned, with our best clothes and clean' Pragapati said: ' That is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman' Then both went away satisfied in their hearts.

4. And Pragapati, looking after them, said : 'They both go away without having perceived and without having known the Self, and whoever of these two2, whether Devas or Asuras, will follow this doctrine (upanishad), will perish' Now Virochana, satisfied in his heart, went to the Asuras and preached that doctrine to them, that the self (the body) alone is to be worshipped, that the

1 I take atmanah as a genitive, governed by yad, not as an accusative plural. 2 The commentator reads yatare for yatah