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III VALLÎ, 10 ANUVÂKA, 6.
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6. 'I am food (object), I am food, I am food! I am the eater of food (subject), I am the eater of food, I am the eater of food! I am the poet (who joins the two together), I am the poet, I am the poet! I am the first-born of the Right (rita). Before the Devas I was in the centre of all that is immortal. He who gives me away, he alone preserves me: him who eats food, I eat as food.
I overcome the whole world, I, endowed with golden light! He who knows this, (attains all this).' This is the Upanishad 2.
1 If we read suvarnagyotih. The commentator reads suvar na gyotih, i.e. the light is like the sun.
2 After the Anukramani follows the same invocation as in the beginning of the third Valli, ‘May it protect us both,' &c.
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