^324:1 As the fire which exists invisibly in a heated vessel becomes visible when the heated vessel is touched with sticks dipped in butter, thus the Atman in the body appears only when the Pranas are diffused in it. Or, as the clarified butter, heated together with the vessel, lights up grass that comes in contact with it, so does this Atman (called Not-breath), by heating its two bodies which are pervaded by the reflections of the thinker, light up everything brought in contact with it, viz. the world.

^324:2 See Katha Up. III, 9.

^324:3 See VI, 31; Brih. Up. II, 1, 10.

^324:4 The light was always there, but it seems then only to appear.

^324:5 The commentator explains this differently. He says that the similes are intended to show how, as soon as the impediment is removed, the worshipper obtains his true form, i.e. becomes Brahman. Afterwards he explains kittam, thought, by the individual thinker, and declares that he vanishes together with the thought, which forms the asraya, the place, or the upadhi, the outward form. Or again, he says that the kitta, the mind, vanishes with its outward sign, viz. the thoughts and imaginations.

^326:1 See Maitr. Up. II, 4; VI, 31.

^326:2 This would seem to have been the end of the dialogue between Pragapati and the Valakhilyas, which, as related by Sakayanya to King Brihadratha, began in II, 3. See, however, VII, 8.

^326:3 Svet. Up. VI, 22 (p. 267); Brih. Up. VI. 3, 12.

^326:4 Here may have been the end of a chapter, but the story of Sakayanya and Brihadratha is continued to VI, 30.

^327:1 The truth or the true are explained by, (1) the book which teaches the Highest Self; (2) by Brahman, who is to be spoken about; (3) by Brahman, who is to be meditated on; (4) by Brahman, who is to be worshipped in thought.

^327:2 I have translated this according to the commentary, but I should prefer to read satyabhilashini.

^327:3 The passages within brackets had to be added from the commentary in order to make the text intelligible, at least according to Ramatirtha's views.

^328:1 See III, 2.

^328:2 See the same verse in Katha Up. VI, 10.

^328:3 See before, II, 1.

^328:4 See Prasna Up. I, 10,' But those who have sought the Self by penance, abstinence, faith, and knowledge, gain by the Northern Path Aditya, the sun.'

^328:5 See Khand. Up. VIII, 6.

^329:1 A similar verse, but with characteristic variations, occurs in the Khand. Up. VIII, 6, 6, and in the Katha Up. VI, 16.

^329:2 Here ends the story of Sakayanya, which began I, 2, and was carried on through chap. VI, though that chapter and the seventh are called Khilas, or supplements, and though the MS. M. also ends, as we saw, with the eighth paragraph of the sixth chapter.

^329:3 See before, II, 4; VI, 13

^330:1 See Svet. Up. VI, 13.

^330:2 See Ken. Up. 2.