--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> XIII 13 (12?)
>
> jñeyam yat tat pravakSyaami
> yaj jñaatvaa'mRtam ashnute
> anaadimat paraM brahma
> *na sat tan naasad ucyate* (na; sat; tat; na; asat; ucyate)
>
> Ramanand Prasad's translation:
>
> I shall fully describe the object of knowledge, knowing which one
> attains immortality. The beginningless Supreme Brahman is said to
be
> neither Sat nor Asat. (See also 9.19) (13.12)
>
> Svami Prabhupaada's translation (somewhat biased, IMO):
>
> I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the
> eternal. This is beginningless, and it is subordinate to Me. It is
> called Brahman, the spirit, and it lies beyond the cause and effect
> of this material world.
>
>
> Rgveda X 129, 1 (first line)
>
> naasadaasinno sadaasiittadaaniim
> (without sandhi:
> na; asat; aasiit; na_u; sat; aasiit; tadaaniim)
>
> A.A.Macdonell's translation:
>
> There was not the non-existent
> nor the existent then.("before" tha Big Bang thang?)
>
> If anyone's interested I might try to explain
> why Svami's translation is IMO "somewhat biased".
The third line transliterated exactly as it is
as to spaces between words:
anaadimatparaM brahma
As youse can see above, A.C. transliterates the line
like this:
anaadimat paraM brahma
That's in line with most translations (e.g. "The beginningless
Supreme Brahman").
But in the vocabulary below the translation, A.C. has it
like this:
anaadi - beginningless; mat-param -subordinate to Me;
Go figure!
IMO, it needs some linguistic jugglery to make "mat-param"
'subordinate to Me'.... Ja nyt tämä poika lähti *askalle!
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