{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01232.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01232.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01232.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. T\u00e2rukshya 2 said: 'The Samhit\u00e2 (union) is formed by means of the Brihat and Rathantara 3 S\u00e2mans.'\n2. Verily, the Rathantara S\u00e2man is speech, the Brihat S\u00e2man is breath. By both, by speech and breath, the Samhit\u00e2 is formed 4.\n3. For this Upanishad (for acquiring from his teacher the knowledge of this Samhit\u00e2 of speech and breath) T\u00e2rukshya guards (his teacher's) cows a whole year.\n4. For it alone T\u00e2rukshya guards the cows a whole year.\n5. This has also been declared by a Rishi (Rv. X, 181, 1; and Rv. X, 181, 2):--\n6. 'Vasishtha carried hither the Rathantara; 'Bharadv\u00e2ga brought hither the Brihat of Agni.'\n7. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n8. Kauntharavya said: 'Speech is united with breath, breath with the blowing air, the blowing air with the Visvedevas, the Visvedevas with the heavenly world, the heavenly world with Brahman. That Samhit\u00e2 is called the gradual Samhit\u00e2.'\n9. He who knows this gradual Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga, in exactly the same manner as this Samhit\u00e2, i.e. gradually.\n10. If that worshipper, whether for his own sake or for that of another, recites (the Samhit\u00e2), let him know when he is going to recite, that this Samhit\u00e2 went up to heaven, and that it will be even so with those who by knowing it become Devas. May it always be so!\n11. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n12. Pa\u00f1k\u00e2lakanda said: 'The Samhit\u00e2 (union, composition) is speech.'\n13. Verily, by speech the Vedas, by speech the metres are composed. Friends unite through speech, all beings unite through speech; therefore speech is everything here 1.\n14. With regard to this (view of speech being more than breath), it should be borne in mind that when we thus repeat (the Veda) or speak, breath is (absorbed) in speech; speech swallows breath. And when we are silent or sleep, speech is (absorbed) in breath; breath swallows speech. The two swallow each other. Verily, speech is the mother, breath the son.\n15. This has been declared also by a Rishi (Rv. X, 114, 4):--\n16. 'There is one bird; (as wind) he has entered the sky; (as breath or living soul) he saw this whole world. With my ripe mind I saw him close to me (in the heart); the mother (licks or) absorbs him (breath), and he absorbs the mother (speech).'\n17. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n18. Next follows the Prag\u00e2pati-Samhit\u00e2.\n19. The former half is the wife, the latter half the man; the result of their union the son; the act of their union the begetting; that Samhit\u00e2 is Aditi (indestructible).\n20. For Aditi (indestructible) is all this whatever there is, father, mother, son, and begetting.\n21. This has also been declared by a Rishi (Rv. I, 189, 10)--\n22. 'Aditi is mother, is father, is son.'\n23. He who thus knows this Samhit\u00e2 (union), becomes united with offspring, cattle, fame, glory of countenance, and the world of Svarga. He lives his full age.\n254:2 The Kashmir MS. reads T\u00e2rkshya, a name used before as the title of a hymn (Ait. \u00c2r. I, 5, 2, 8). Here T\u00e2rakshya seems preferable, see P\u00e2n. IV, 1, 105.\n254:3 See Ait. \u00c2r. I, 4, 2, 1-4.\n254:4 These two, the Brihat and Rathantara, are required for the Prishthastotra in the Agnishtoma, and they are to remind the worshipper that speech and breath are required for all actions.\n255:1 Everything can be obtained by speech in this life and in the next. Comm.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Aitareya-\u00c2ranyaka: III, 1, 6","type":"page"}