Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
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

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II ADHYÂYA, 6.
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mind in myself, I (this one here), Svâhâ.' 'I offer thy pragña (knowledge) in myself, I (this one here), Svâha.' Then having inhaled the smell of the smoke, and having rubbed his limbs with the ointment of ghee, walking on in silence, let him try to come in contact or let him stand speaking in the wind, (so that the wind may carry his words to the person by whom he desires to be loved). Surely he becomes dear, and they think of him
5. Now follows the restraint (samyamana) instituted by Pratardana (the son of Divodása): they call it the inner Agni-hotra. So long as a man speaks, he cannot breathe, he offers all the while his prâna (breath) in his speech. And so long as a man breathes, he cannot speak, he offers all the while his speech in his breath. These two endless and immortal oblations he offers always, whether waking or sleeping. Whatever other oblations there are those, e. g. of the ordinary Agnihotra, consisting of milk and other things), they have an end, for they consist of works (which, like all works, have an end). The ancients, knowing this the best Agnihotra), did not offer the (ordinary) Agnihotra.
6. Uktha is Brahman, thus said Sushkabhringâra. Let him meditate on it (the uktha) as the same with the Rik, and all beings will praise him as the best. Let him meditate on it as the same with the Yagus, and all beings will join before him
1 Uktha, a Vedic hymn, has been identified with prâna, breath, in the Kânva and other Sâkhâs (Brih. År. V, 13, 1; Ait. Ar. II, 1, 2). Here uktha, i.e. the prâna of the uktha, is further identified with Brahman. As uktha (the hymn) is prâna, and as the sacrifice is performed with hymns, the sacrifice, too, is uktha, and therefore prâna, and therefore Brahman. Comm.
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