| 24. Fire, light,
daytime, the bright fortnight,. the six months of the northern solsticethen
departing, men who know Brahman reach Brahman.Fire is the deity presiding
over time ; so also is light a deity presiding over time: Or, it may be
that fire and light are the deities so called ; the reference, however,
to the path as a whole by the expressions in what time and that time being
due to the predominance of the deities presiding over time.The daytime is
the deity presiding over the daytime, the bright fortnight is the deity
presiding never the bright fortnight. The six months of the northern solstice:
here also, it is the deity that forms the path, The principle on which this
interpretation of the passage is based has been established elsewere. Those
who die, having been engaged in the contemplation of Brahman, reach Brahman
by this path. The expression in course of time should be understood after
reach ; for, those who are firm in devotion to right knowledge and attain
to immediate liberation have no place to go to or to return from. |
