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Kausitaki Upanisad
Chapter Two
5. Now Pratardana’s method of self-restraint folk call it the ‘inner Agnihotra’:
So long as a person is person speaking, he cannot breathe: at that time he offers up the breath in speech. So long as a person is breathing, he cannot speak: at that time he offers up speech in the breath. Waking or sleeping, one constantly makes these two unending, immortal offerings. Other offerings have an end, for they are made of actions. The ancients, knowing this, used not to offer the Agnihotra.
6. ‘The Uktha is Brahman: so said Suskabhrngara. One should worship it as rc: then all beings praise (rc) one, to one’s betterment. One should worship it as yajus: then all beings are yoked (yuj) to one, to one’s betterment. One should worship it as betterment. One should worship it as saman: all beings then bow (sam-nam) to one, to one’s betterment. One should worship it as splendour: one should worship it as fame: one should worship it as brightness. As it is the most splendid, the most famous, the brightest among the recitations, the one who knows this becomes the most splendid, the most famous, the brightest among all beings.
The Adhvaryu makes ready the self of the sacrifice, which is made of actions. On it he weaves that which is made of the yajus. On that which is made of the yajus, the Hotr weaves that which is made of the rc. On that which is made of the rc, the Udgatr weaves that which is made of the saman. This is the self of the threefold knowledge.
7. Now there are three contemplations (upasana) all-conquering Kausitaki.
The all-conquering Kausitaki used to worship (upas) the sun at rising, having put on the sacred thread, fetched water and three times sprinkled with the water pot, saying, ‘You are the drawer: draw evil from me. By the same method he worshipped it in the middle of the course, saying ‘You are the drawer-up: draw up evil from me.’ By the same method he worshipped it at setting, saying, ‘You are the drawer-together evil from me.’ So it draws together whatever evil he has done by day or by night. In the same way, the one who knows this worships the sun by this method: it draws together whatever evil he does, by day or by night.
8. Now each month, when the new moon night comes round, when the moon appears in the west, one should worship it by this method, or cast two grass blades at it, saying,
‘Since my well-formed heart
Rests in the moon in the sky,
I think myself a knower of it.
May I not mourn for harm to a son.
Then his offspring do not pass away before him. That is for one to whom a son has been bor. Now for one to whom a son has not yet been born: after muttering the three rc verses,
‘Wax! May well-being come to you!
‘May juices, may strength come to you.
‘Stem that the Adityas cause to wax!
he says, ‘Do not wax by our breath, offspring, animals. Wax by the breath, offspring, animals of the one who hates us, of the one that we hate. I turn of Indra: I turn with the sun’s turn. ‘And he turns towards the rights hand.
9. Now on the full moon night, when the moon appears in the east, one should worship it by this method, saying, ‘You are King Soma, the shining. You are the five-mouthed Prajapati.
‘The Brahmana is one mouth of you. With that mouth you eat the kings. With that mouth make me an eater of food.
‘The king is one mouth of you. With that mouth you eat the people. With that mouth make me an eater of food.
‘The hawk is one mouth of you. With that mouth you eat the birds. With that mouth make me an eater of food.
‘Fire is one mouth of you. With that mouth you eat this world. With that mouth make me an eater of food.
There is a fifth mouth in you. With that mouth you eat all beings. With that mouth make me an eater of food.
‘Do not wane with our breath, offspring, animals. Wane with the brath, offspring, animals of the one who hates us, the sun’s turn. ‘And he turns towards the right hand.
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