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MAITRÂYANA-BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD.
*This alone is the pure syllable, this alone is the highest syllable; he who knows that syllable only, whatever he desires, is his?.'
5. And thus it has been said elsewhere: This Om 2 is the sound-endowed body of him (Prânâdityâtman). This is his gender-endowed body, viz. feminine, masculine, neuter. This is his light-endowed body, viz. Agni, Vâyu, Aditya. This is his lord-endowed body, viz. Brahmâ, Rudra, Vishnu. This is his mouthendowed body, viz. Gârhapatya, Dakshinagni, Ahavaniya? This is his knowledge-endowed body, viz. Rik, Yagus, Sâman. This is his world-endowed body, viz. Bhûh, Bhuvah, Svar. This is his time-endowed body, viz. Past, Present, Future. This is his heat-endowed body, viz. Breath, Fire, Sun. This is his growthendowed body, viz. Food, Water, Moon. This is his thought-endowed body, viz. intellect, mind, personality. This is his breath-endowed body, viz. Prâna, Apâna, Vyâna. Therefore by the aforesaid syllable Om are all these here enumerated bodies praised and identified (with the Prânâdityâtman). For thus it is said" :
O Satyakâma, the syllable Om is the high and the low Brahman.'
6. This 5 (world) was unuttered 6. Then forsooth Pragâpati, having brooded, uttered it in the words Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svar. This is the grossest body of that Pragâpati, consisting of the three worlds? Of that body Svar is the head, Bhuvah the navel, Bhuh 1 Kath. Up. II, 16.
2 M. reads tanûr yom iti. $ The fires on the three altars. • Prasña Up. V, 2.
o M. reads atha vyâttam. • So far the pranava or Om has been explained; now follows the explanation of the Vyâhritis; cf. VI, 2. Vyâhriti is derived from vyâhar, and means an utterance.
? Cf.V!, 5.
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