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III ÂRANYAKA, 2 ADHYAYA, 5 KHANDA, 4.
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him fast, and cook a pot of milk, sacrifice it, accompanying each oblation with a verse of the Râtri hymn (Rv. X, 127), and then, after having fed the Brâhmanas, with other food (prepared at his house) eat himself the rest of the) oblation.
19. Let him know that the person within all beings, not heard here?, not reached, not thought, not subdued, not seen, not understood, not classed, but hearing, thinking, seeing, classing, sounding, understanding, knowing, is his Self.
FIFTH KHANDA 2. 1. Now next the Upanishad of the whole speech.
True all these are Upanishads of the whole speech, but this they call so (chiefly).
2. The mute consonants represent the earth, the sibilants the sky, the vowels heaven.
The mute consonants represent Agni (fire), the sibilants air, the vowels the sun.
The mute consonants represent the Rig-veda, the sibilants the Yagur-veda, the vowels the Sâma-veda.
The mute consonants represent the eye, the sibilants the ear, the vowels the mind.
The mute consonants represent the up-breathing, the sibilants the down-breathing, the vowels the back-breathing.
3. Next comes this divine lute (the human body, made by the gods). The lute made by man is an imitation of it.
4. As there is a head of this, so there is a head of that (lute, made by man). As there is a stomach
1 The Kashmir MS. reads sa yatas sruto.
• After having inserted the preceding chapter on omina and the concluding paragraph on the highest knowledge, he now returns to the meditation on the letters.
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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 |