Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

-------------------------------------------------- Saturday, November 21, 2020. 05 : 49. PM. CHAPTER - I : The Universe as a Sacrificial Horse-3. -------------------------------------------- This description of the Cosmos as Horse is entirely symbolic, and highly complicated to conceive, because the purpose of the Upani?had is to bring out the psychological element that is present in the comparison that is made between the physical counterparts of the body of the horse, and the body of the universe outside. The difference between the horse conceived here, or to make a wider comparison, the case of any individual, for the matter of that, the distinction between the body of an individual, whether of an animal or a human being, and the world outside, is psychological. If it were not psychological and is really physical, an identification would be impossible. That one person is different from another person, is a psychological division. It is not physical. We have had occasion to discuss t

----------------------------------------------- Tuesday, November 10, 10 : 53. AM. CHAPTER - I : The Universe as a Sacrificial Horse-2. ------------------------------------------------------------- The mouth is the Agnī Vaisvanara. In some Upaniṣhads, the Aitareya particularly, we have another cosmological description where we are told that from the Cosmic Virāt, Fire broke out through the mouth. And the organ of speech is supposed to be presided over, in every case, by the principle of Fire. So the mouth of the individual horse, here, may be identified with the cosmic fire which is Vaiśvānara. Vaiśvānara is a word which has two or three meanings. It is a fire principle which is hiddenly present in all things, the principle of fire which manifests itself as the visible fire outside, which, again, is sometimes identified with the Cosmic Being. Vaiśva-Nara means the Cosmic-Man, and the derivative of this word is Vaiśvānara. The Vaiśvānara is the Cosmic Person who represents the energy of