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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 2 · Brāhmaṇa 1

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 2.1.8

स होवाच गार्ग्यः -- य एवायम् अप्सु पुरुष एतम् एवाहं ब्रह्मोपास इति ।
स होवाचाजातशत्रुः -- मा मैतस्मिन्संवदिष्ठाः ।
प्रतिरूप इति वा अहम् एतम् उपास इति ।
स य एतम् एवम् उपास्ते प्रतिरूपं हैवैनम् उपगच्छति नाप्रतिरूपम् ।
अथो प्रतिरुपो ऽस्माज् जायते ॥

sa hovāca gārgyaḥ -- ya evāyam apsu puruṣa etam evāhaṃ brahmopāsa iti ।
sa hovācājātaśatruḥ -- mā maitasminsaṃvadiṣṭhāḥ ।
pratirūpa iti vā aham etam upāsa iti ।
sa ya etam evam upāste pratirūpaṃ haivainam upagacchati nāpratirūpam ।
atho pratirupo ’smāj jāyate ॥

Gârgya said: 'The person that is in the water (in seed, and in the heart), that I adore as Brahman.' Agâtasatru said to him: 'No, no! Do not speak to me on this. I adore him as likeness.' Whoso adores him thus, to him comes what is likely (or proper), not what is improper; what is born from him, is like unto him.

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 15 (1884)

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