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ANUGITA
CHAPTER XIX
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The Brahmana's wife said :
This is not possible to be understood by one whose self 1 is frivolous, or by one whose self is not refined; and my intelligence is very frivolous, and narrow, and confused. Tell me the means by which this knowledge is acquired. I (wish to) learn from you the source from which that knowledge proceeds.
The Brahmana said :
Know that he who devotes himself to the Brahman is the (lower) Arani, the instructor is the upper Arani. Penance and sacred learning cause the attrition 2, and from that the fire of knowledge is produced.
The Brahmana's wife said :
As to this symbol of the Brahman which is denominated the Kshetragna, where, indeed, is (to be found) a description of it, by which it 3 is capable of being comprehended?
Footnotes :
1. I. e. mind, Arguna Misra.
2. Scil. of the Aranis (i. e. the wood used for kindling fire); the sense is, that the pupil who has penance and Vedic learning goes to a teacher for knowledge. See Svetasvatara.
3. I. e. the Brahman, says Arguna Misra, of which the Kshetragna is only a symbol. For a definition of Kshetragna, see Santi Parvan (Moksha), chap st. 23.
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