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TAITTIRIYAKA-UPANISHAD.
SEVENTH ANUVÂKA. 1. 'The earth, the sky, heaven, the four quarters, and the intermediate quarters,' - Agni (fire), Vayu (air), Aditya (sun), Kandramas (moon), and the stars,'— Water, herbs, trees, ether, the universal Self (virág),'--so much with reference to material objects (bhůta).
Now with reference to the self (the body): 'Prâna (up-breathing), Apâna (down-breathing), Vyâna (backbreathing), Udâna (out-breathing), and Samâna (onbreathing),'— The eye, the ear, mind, speech, and touch,'—The skin, flesh, muscle, bone, and marrow.' Having dwelt on this (fivefold arrangement of the worlds, the_gods, beings, breathings, senses, and elements of the body), a_Rishi said: Whatever exists is fivefold (pânkta)1.'
(1) By means of the one fivefold set (that referring to the body) he completes the other fivefold set.
EIGHTH ANUVÂKA. 1. Om means Brahman. 2. Om means all this. 3. Om means obedience. When they have been told, 'Om, speak,' they speak. 4. After Om they sing Sâmans. 5. After Om they recite hymns. 6. After Om the Adhvaryu gives the response. 7. After Om the Brahman-priest gives orders. 8. After Om he (the sacrificer) allows the performance of the Agnihotra. 9. When a Brâhmana is going to begin his lecture, he says, 10. 'Om, may I acquire Brahman (the Veda).' He thus acquires the Veda.
1 Cf. Brih. Âr. Up. I, 4, 17.
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