vidyud brahmety āhuḥ | vidānād vidyut | vidyaty enaṃ pāpmano ya evaṃ veda vidyud brahmeti | vidyud dhy eva brahma ||
SEVENTH BRÂHMANA
1. They say that lightning is Brahman, because lightning (vidyut) is called so from cutting off (vidânât). Whosoever knows this, that lightning is Brahman, him (that Brahman) cuts off from evil, for lightning indeed is Brahman.
tathaivopāsanāntaraṃ satyasya brahmaṇo viśiṣṭaphalamārabhyate - vidyudbrahmetyāhuḥ |
vidyuto brahmaṇo nirvacanamucyate - vidānādavakhaṇḍanāttamaso medhāndhakāraṃ vidārya hyavabhāsate 'to vidyut |
evaṃ guṇaṃ vidyudbrahmeti yo vedāsai vidyatyavakhaṇḍayati vināśayati pāpmana enamātmānaṃ prati pratikūlabhūtāḥ pāpmāno ye tānsarvānpāpmano 'khaṇḍayatītyarthaḥ |
ya evaṃ veda vidyudbrahmeti tasyānurūpaṃ phalam |
vidyuddhi yasmādbrahma || 1 ||
iti śrīmadbṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣye pañcamādhyāyasya saptamaṃ brāhmaṇam || 7 ||
Bṛhad san, ca. B.C. 600, Adhyāya, Brāhmaṇa, verse 5,7.1;
Bṛhad-DSh, 1657, p.;
Bṛhad-Anq-Dup, 1801-02, p.;
Bṛhad-Mül, 1879-84;
Bṛhad-Śaṃ, 8th c. A.D.;
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