Passage 13

In English

So, those individuals who wish to acquire scholarship and knowledge of put a piece of the deer skin in their sacred thread before they begin studying . Since the deer skin has the three colours, , , and , it is considered to be symbolic of all the three and the trinity of the gods. Although in the common worldly parlance it may simply be viewed as a deer skin, in the yajna when it is used for the sacred purpose it is described by a special name . here stands for happiness or bliss. This kind of , which is beyond and above the sensual pleasures is called bliss. This bliss which is different from the ordinary pleasures can come to us only through .