(11) “... spread over the universe is He the Lord therefore as all-pervader, He’s benign.”
The powerful God, the equal of the Sun, is in that one, and whoever knows him is immortal.[[210]] Going on further with the text, we come upon a new attribute, which informs us in what form and manner Rudra lived in men.
(12) “The mighty monarch, He, the man, the one who doth the essence start towards that peace of perfect stainlessness, lordly, exhaustless light.
(13) “The Man, the size of a thumb, the inner self, sits ever in the heart of all that’s born, by mind, mind ruling in the heart, is He revealed. That they who know, immortal they become.
(14) “The Man of the thousands of heads (and) thousands of eyes (and) thousands of feet, covering the earth on all sides, He stands beyond, ten finger-breadths.
(15) “The Man is verily this all, (both) what has been and what will be, Lord (too) of deathlessness which far all else surpasses.”
Important parallel quotations are to be found in the “Kathopanishad,” section 2, part 4.
(12) “The Man of the size of a thumb, resides in the midst within the self, of the past and the future, the Lord.
(13) “The Man of the size of a thumb like flame free from smoke, of past and of future the Lord, the same is to-day, to-morrow the same will He be.”
Who this Tom-Thumb is can easily be divined—the phallic symbol of the libido. The phallus is this hero dwarf, who performs great deeds; he, this ugly god in homely form, who is the great doer of wonders, since he is the visible expression of the creative strength incarnate in man. This extraordinary contrast is also very striking in “Faust” (the mother scene):