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This is the truth. As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto fire, fly forth a thousandfold, thus are various be…
That heavenly Person is without body, he is both without and within, not produced, without breath and without mind, p…
From him (when entering on creation) is born breath, mind, and all organs of sense, ether, air, light, water, and the…
Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed, the…
From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs;…
From him come the Rik, the Sâman, the Yagush, the Dîkshâ (initiatory rites), all sacrifices and offerings of animals,…
From him the many Devas too are begotten, the Sâdhyas (genii), men, cattle, birds, the up and down breathings, rice a…
The seven senses (prâna) also spring from him, the seven lights (acts of sensation), the seven kinds of fuel (objects…
Hence come the seas and all the mountains, from him flow the rivers of every kind; hence come all herbs and the juice…
The Person is all this, sacrifice, penance, Brahman, the highest immortal; he who knows this hidden in the cave (of t…