{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01057.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01057.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01057.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. There are three branches of the law. Sacrifice, study, and charity are the first 1,\n2. Austerity the second, and to dwell as a Brahmak\u00e2rin in the house of a tutor, always mortifying the body in the house of a tutor, is the third. All these obtain the worlds of the blessed; but the Brahmasamstha alone (he who is firmly grounded in Brahman) obtains immortality.\n3. Prag\u00e2pati brooded on the worlds. From them, thus brooded on, the threefold knowledge (sacrifice) issued forth. He brooded on it, and from it, thus brooded on, issued the three syllables, Bh\u00fbh, Bhuvah, Svah.\n4. He brooded on them, and from them, thus brooded on, issued the Om. As all leaves are attached to a stalk, so is all speech (all words) attached to the Om (Brahman). Om is all this, yea, Om is all this.\n35:1 Not the first in rank or succession, but only in enumerating the three branches of the law. This first branch corresponds to the second stage, the \u00e2srama of the householder. Austerity is meant for the V\u00e2naprastha, the third \u00e2srama, while the third is intended for the Brahmak\u00e2rin, the student, only that the naishthika or perpetual Brahmak\u00e2rin here takes the place of the ordinary student. The Brahmasamstha would represent the fourth \u00e2srama, that of the Sanny\u00e2sin or parivr\u00e2g, who has ceased to perform any works, even the tapas or austerities of the V\u00e2naprastha.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad: II, 23","type":"page"}