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II ÂKANYAKA, I ADHYÂYA, 6 KHANDA, 4.
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4. To him who knows this all creatures, without being constrained, offer gifts.
5. That breath is (to be called) sattya (the true), for sat is breath, ti is food, yam is the sun? This is threefold, and threefold the eye also may be called, it being white, dark, and the pupil. He who knows why true is true (why sattya is sattya), even if he should speak falsely, yet what he says is true.
Sixth KHANDA. 1. Speech is his (the breath's) rope, the names the knots 2. Thus by his speech as by a rope, and by his names as by knots, all this is bound. For all this are names indeed, and with speech he calls everything.
2. People carry him who knows this, as if they were bound by a rope.
3. Of the body of the breath thus meditated on, the Ushnih verse forms the hairs, the Gâyatri the skin, the Trishtubh the flesh, the Anushtubh the muscles, the Gagati the bone, the Parkti the marrow, the Brihati the breath> (prâna). He is covered with the verses (khandas, metres). Because he is thus covered with verses, therefore they call them khandas (coverings, metres).
4. If a man knows the reason why khandas are called khandas, the verses cover him in whatever place he likes against any evil deed.
through meditation acquired identity with the universal spirit, and that therefore he might say that whatever was not surrendered to him did not really belong to anybody. On Hiranyadat, see Ait. Brâhm. III, 6.
1 Cf. Kh. Up. VIII, 3, 5.
* The rope is supposed to be the chief rope to which various smaller ropes are attached for fastening animals.
• Here conceived as the air breathed, not as the deity. Comm.
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| SR No. | 007670 |
| Book Title | Upnishad |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1879 |
| Total Pages | 1835 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 35 MB |