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Chandogya Upanisad
Chapter Three
4. In this way Brahma taught it to Prajapati; Prajapati to Manu; Manu to his offspring. In this way his father taught brahman to Uddalaka Aruni, his eldest son.
5. In this way a father should teach brahman to his eldest son or to a trustworthy student,
6. Not to anyone else at all, even if someone should give him this whole earth, surrounded by the waters, filled with riches: for this is greater than that. This is greater than that.
III.12
1. The Gayatri is all this, whatever has come to be. Speech is the Gayatri: speech sings (gai-) and protects (trai-) all this that has come to be.
2. What the Gayatri is, this earth is. Whatever has come to be is established on the earth and does not go beyond it.
3. What the earth is, the body is in a person. The breaths are established in it and do not go beyond it.
4. What the body is in a person, the heart is within the person. The breaths are established in it and do not go beyond it.
5. The Gayatri is four-footed and six-fold. It is described in a rc verse:
6. 'So far goes his greatness,
And the person is greater than that.
A foot of him is all beings:
Three-footed, he has immortality in the sky.'
7. What is called 'brahman' is the space that is outside a person. The space that is outside a person
8. Is the space that is within a person. The space that is within a person
9. Is the space that is within the heart. It is the full, the unmoving. The one who knows this wins glory which is full and unmoving.
III.13
1. The heart has five divine channels. Its eastern channel is the breath (prana); it is the eye; it is the sun. One should contemplate it as brightness (tejas), as good food. The one who knows this becomes bright (tejasvin), an eater of food.
2. Its southern channel is the diffused breath (vyana); it is the ear; it is the moon. One should contemplate it as glory, as fame. The one who knows this becomes glorious, famous.
3. Its western channel is the lower breath (apana); it is speech; it is fire. One should contemplate it as the radiance of brahman, as good food. The one who knows this becomes radiant with brahman, an eater of food.
4. Its northern channel is the central breath (samana); it is the mind, it is Parjanya. One should contemplate it as renown, as beauty. The one who knows this becomes renowned, beautiful.
5. Its upward channel is the up-breath (udana); it is air; it is space. One should contemplate it as power, as might. The one who knows this becomes powerful, mighty.
6. These five brahman-persons are the door-guardians of the heavenly world. A hero is born in the family of the one who knows these five brahman-persons as the door-guardians of the heavenly world. He attains the heavenly world-the one who knows these five brahman-persons as the door-guardians of the heavenly world.
7. The light which shines beyond the sky, behind all, behind everything, in the unsurpassed, highest worlds, is the same that is the light within the person.
8. This is what one is seeing when one experiences by touch the heat in the body. This is what one is hearing when one closes one's ears and hears a king of noise, a roaring like that of a blazing fire. One should contemplate it as the seen and the heard. The one who knows this becomes someone worth seeing, someone heard-of-the one who knows this.
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