VML-2/14/02

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Then the fire taught him. " This earth. food. fire. and sun whom you

worship, are forms of Brahman. The person that is seen in the sun, I

am He. He who knows this and meditates on Him, all his sins vanish

and he has long life and becomes happy. He who lives in the cardinal

points, the moon, the stars, and the water, I am He. He who lives in

this life, the ether, the heavens, and the lightning, I am He. " Here

too we see the same idea of practical religion. The things which they

were worshipping, such as the fire, the sun, the moon, and so forth,

and the voice with which they were familiar, form the subject of the

stories which explain them and give then; a higher meaning.