{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01070.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01070.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01070.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee 3 (verse) is everything whatsoever here exists. G\u00e2yatr\u00ee indeed is speech, for speech\nsings forth (g\u00e2ya-ti) and protects (tr\u00e2ya-te) everything that here exists.\n2. That G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is also the earth, for everything that here exists rests on the earth, and does not go beyond.\n3. That earth again is the body in man, for in it the vital airs (pr\u00e2nas 1, which are everything) rest, and do not go beyond.\n4. That body again in man is the heart within man, for in it the pr\u00e2nas (which are everything) rest, and do not go beyond.\n5. That G\u00e2yatr\u00ee has four feet 2 and is sixfold 3. And this is also declared by a Rik verse (Rig-Veda X, 90, 3):--\n6. 'Such is the greatness of it (of Brahman, under the disguise of G\u00e2yatr\u00ee 4); greater than it is the Person 5 (purusha). His feet are all things. The immortal with three feet is in heaven (i. e. in himself).'\n7. The Brahman which has been thus described (as immortal with three feet in heaven, and as G\u00e2yatr\u00ee) is the same as the ether which is around us;\n8. And the ether which is around us, is the same as the ether which is within us. And the ether which is within us,\n9. That is the ether within the heart. That ether in the heart (as Brahman) is omnipresent and unchanging. He who knows this obtains omnipresent and unchangeable happiness.\n44:3 The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is one of the sacred metres, and is here to be meditated on as Brahman. It is used in the sense of verse, and as the name of a famous hymn. The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is often praised as the most powerful metre, and whatever can be obtained by means of the recitation of G\u00e2yatr\u00ee verses is described as the achievement of the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee. The etymology of g\u00e2yatr\u00ee from gai and tr\u00e2 is, of course, fanciful.\n45:1 The pr\u00e2nas may be meant for the five senses, as explained in Kh. I, 2, 1; II, 7, 1; or for the five breathings, as explained immediately afterwards in III, 13, 1. The commentator sees in them everything that here exists (Kh. Up. III, 15, 4), and thus establishes the likeness between the body and the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee. As G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is the earth, and the earth the body, and the body the heart, G\u00e2yatr\u00ee is in the end to be considered as the heart.\n45:2 The four feet are explained as the four quarters of the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee metre, of six syllables each. The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee really consists of three feet of eight syllables each.\n45:3 The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee has been identified with all beings, with speech, earth, body, heart, and the vital airs, and is therefore called sixfold. This, at least, is the way in which the commentator accounts for the epithet 'sixfold.'\n45:4 Of Brahman modified as G\u00e2yatr\u00ee, having four feet, and being sixfold.\n45:5 The real Brahman, unmodified by form and name.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad: III, 12","type":"page"}