{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01044.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01044.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Next let a man meditate on the sevenfold S\u00e2man which is uniform in itself 1 and leads beyond death. The word hi\u1e45k\u00e2ra has three syllables, the word prast\u00e2va has three syllables: that is equal (sama).\n2. The word \u00e2di (first, Om) has two syllables, the word pratih\u00e2ra has four syllables. Taking one syllable from that over, that is equal (sama).\n3. The word udg\u00eetha has three syllables, the word upadrava has four syllables. With three and three syllables it should be equal. One syllable being left over, it becomes trisyllabic. Hence it is equal.\n4. The word nidhana has three syllables, therefore it is equal. These make twenty-two syllables.\n5. With twenty-one syllables a man reaches the sun (and death), for the sun is the twenty-first 2 from here; with the twenty-second he conquers what is beyond the sun: that is blessedness, that is freedom from grief\n6. He obtains here the victory over the sun (death), and there is a higher victory than the victory over the sun for him, who knowing this meditates on the sevenfold S\u00e2man as uniform in itself, which leads beyond death, yea, which leads beyond death.\n28:1 \u00c2tmasammita is explained by the commentator either as having the same number of syllables in the names of the different S\u00e2mans, or as equal to the Highest Self.\n28:2 There are twelve months, five seasons, three worlds, then follows the sun as the twenty-first. Comm.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad: II, 10","type":"page"}