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We may point here to one conspicuous instance,
and we refer to it because what is known as
"mer"- the instance of the drum brought
in to illustrate the promissory statement,
" आत्मनि विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवति "When the
Atman is known, all this (variety of the world)
is known "-is very important for the Advaitic
doctrine of the Upanishads. The passage of
the Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad (iv. 5, 6,)
referred to is as follows :- "स यथा दुन्दुभेर्हन्यमानस्य
न बाह्याञ्शब्दाञ्शक्नुयाग्रहणाय दुन्दुभेस्तु ग्रहणेन दुन्दुभ्याघातस्य
वा शब्दो गहीतः " Dr. Thibaut could easily have
referred to Sankara's bhashya on the Upanishad
or Govindananda's commentary on the Sutra
bhashya. The passage is correctly translated as
follows:-"The special sounds of the drum as
modified (by the nature of the material of which
it is made, the qualities of the beater, &c.) cannot
be distinguished when one does not know the
general and characteristic sound of the drum as
a drum's sound (and not as that of another
instrument). When the general and charac-
teristic sound of the drum is known (to be the
drum's sound, and not that of any other instru-
ment) the special sounds modified as before can
We may point here to one conspicuous instance,
and we refer to it because what is known as
"mer"- the instance of the drum brought
in to illustrate the promissory statement,
" आत्मनि विज्ञाते सर्वमिदं विज्ञातं भवति "When the
Atman is known, all this (variety of the world)
is known "-is very important for the Advaitic
doctrine of the Upanishads. The passage of
the Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad (iv. 5, 6,)
referred to is as follows :- "स यथा दुन्दुभेर्हन्यमानस्य
न बाह्याञ्शब्दाञ्शक्नुयाग्रहणाय दुन्दुभेस्तु ग्रहणेन दुन्दुभ्याघातस्य
वा शब्दो गहीतः " Dr. Thibaut could easily have
referred to Sankara's bhashya on the Upanishad
or Govindananda's commentary on the Sutra
bhashya. The passage is correctly translated as
follows:-"The special sounds of the drum as
modified (by the nature of the material of which
it is made, the qualities of the beater, &c.) cannot
be distinguished when one does not know the
general and characteristic sound of the drum as
a drum's sound (and not as that of another
instrument). When the general and charac-
teristic sound of the drum is known (to be the
drum's sound, and not that of any other instru-
ment) the special sounds modified as before can