{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01213.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01213.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01213.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. This then becomes perfect as a thousand of Brihat\u00ee verses. Its consonants 1 form its body, its voice 2 (vowels) the Soul 3, its sibilants 4 the air of the breath.\n2. He who knew this became Vasishtha, he took this name from thence 5.\n3. Indra verily declared this to Visv\u00e2mitra, and Indra verily declared this to Bharadv\u00e2ga. Therefore Indra is invoked by him as a friend 6.\n4. This becomes perfect as a thousand of Brihat\u00ee verses 7, and of that hymn perfect with a thousand Brihad verses, there are 36,000 syllables 8. So many are also the thousands of days of a hundred years (36,000). With the consonants they fill the nights, with the vowels the days.\n5. This becomes perfect as a thousand of Brihat\u00ee verses. He who knows this, after this thousand of Brihat\u00ees thus accomplished, becomes full of knowledge, full of the gods, full of Brahman, full of the immortal, and then goes also to the gods.\n6. What I am (the worshipper), that is he (sun); what he is, that am I.\n7. This has been said by a Rishi (Rv. I, 115, 1): 'The sun is the self of all that moves and rests.'\n8. Let him look to that, let him look to that!\n220:1 Vya\u00f1gan\u00e2ni, explained by k\u00e2dini.\n220:2 Ghosha, explained by aspirated sonant consonants.\n220:3 \u00c2tm\u00e2, explained by madhyasar\u00eeram.\n220:4 Sashasah\u00e2h. Comm.\n220:5 He became Pr\u00e2na, and because Pr\u00e2na causes all to dwell, or covers all (v\u00e2sayati), therefore the Rishi was called Vasishtha. Comm. Cf. Ait. \u00c2r. II, 2, 2, 2.\n220:6 At the Subrahmany\u00e2 ceremony in the Soma sacrifices, the invocations are, Indra \u00e2 gakkha, hariva \u00e2 gakkha.\n220:7 Cf. Ait. \u00c2r. II, 3, 8, 8.\n220:8 Each Brihat\u00ee has thirty-six syllables.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: II, 2, 4","type":"page"}