{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01074.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01074.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Man is sacrifice. His (first) twenty-four years are the morning-libation. The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee has twenty-four syllables, the morning-libation is offered with G\u00e2yatr\u00ee hymns. The Vasus are connected with that part of the sacrifice. The Pr\u00e2nas (the five senses) are the Vasus, for they make all this to abide (v\u00e2sayanti).\n2. If anything ails him in that (early) age, let him say: 'Ye Pr\u00e2nas, ye Vasus, extend this my morning-libation unto the midday-libation, that I, the sacrificer, may not perish in the midst of the Pr\u00e2nas or Vasus.' Thus he recovers from his illness, and becomes whole.\n3. The next forty-four years are the midday-libation. The Trishtubh has forty-four syllables, the midday-libation is offered with Trishtubh hymns. The Rudras are connected with that part of it. The Pr\u00e2nas are the Rudras, for they make all this to cry (rodayanti).\n4. If anything ails him in that (second) age, let him say: 'Ye Pr\u00e2nas, ye Rudras, extend this my midday-libation unto the third libation, that I, the sacrificer, may not perish in the midst of the Pr\u00e2nas or Rudras.' Thus he recovers from his illness, and becomes whole.\n5. The next forty-eight years are the third\nlibation. The Gagat\u00ee has forty-eight syllables, the third libation is offered with Gagat\u00ee hymns. The \u00c2dityas are connected with that part of it. The Pr\u00e2nas are the \u00c2dityas, for they take up all this (\u00e2dadate).\n6. If anything ails him in that (third) age, let him say: 'Ye Pr\u00e2nas, ye \u00c2dityas, extend this my third libation unto the full age, that I, the sacrificer, may not perish in the midst of the Pr\u00e2nas or \u00c2dityas.' Thus he recovers from his illness, and becomes whole.\n7. Mahid\u00e2sa Aitareya (the son of Itar\u00e2), who knew this, said (addressing a disease): 'Why dost thou afflict me, as I shall not die by it?' He lived a hundred and sixteen years (i.e. 24+44+48). He, too, who knows this lives on to a hundred and sixteen years.\n50:1 The object of this Khanda is to show how to obtain long life, as promised before.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad...","type":"page"}