Likening the sun to eye, occurring in the next quarter, is not implausible. Chandramaa manaso jaata.h might be a play with word - chandramas and manas are alliterative. The Braahmanas sometimes aggrandize old sayings with eye to ritual. I add that the Braahmana often state authentic Vedic beliefs and tradition too.

Best

DB

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, <dermot@grevatt.force9.co.uk> wrote:

Can anyone explain why the mind is the microcosmic counterpart of the moon? The
correspondence appears in Rgveda 10.90.13 and in countless passages of the Brahmanas
and Upanisads, but it's not obvious like breath and wind.

Renou Études Védiques vol XVI p. 150 says it's a play on words. I find that hard to accept,
because the words (candra-mas and manas) are not very similar (they are in Latin, but the
sages didn't have access to an Indo-European comparative dictionary).

Could the connection be through soma (often linked or identified with the moon), since the
mind is called a pavitra through which poetic insight (dhI) flows and becomes offerings
(Gonda Vision of the Vedic Poets pp. 278-9)?

Or is it that the mind, like the moon, is constant though its content continually changes?

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