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Kausitaki Upanisad
Chapter Two
10. Now when one is about to lie with one’s wife, one should stroke her heart, saying,
‘o well-formed one, by that which rests
in your heart, in Prajapati,
Mistress of immortality,
May you not endure suffering from a son.’
11. On coming back when one has been away, one should sniff one’s son’s head, saying,
‘You arise from every limb:
You spring from the heart.
Indeed, son, you are my self.
Live a hundred autumns, .
He utters his name, saying,
‘Be a rock, be an exe,
Be invincible gold.
Indeed, son, you are brightness.
Live a hundred autumns, .
He speaks his name, then embraces him, saying, ’As Prajapati has embraced his creatures for their safety, I embrace you, . Then he mutters in his right ear:
‘Give to him, Maghava, who receive the remnant and in his left:
‘Bestow on him, Indra, the finest goods.
e‘Do not be cut off. Do not suffer. Live a hundred autumns of life. Son, with your name I sniff your head. So saying, he sniffs his head three times. ‘I low over you with the lowing of cows.’ So saying, he lows over his head three times.
12. Now the dying-around (parimara) of the gods.
Brahman shines when fire burns, and it dies when it does not burn. Its brightness (tejas) goes to the sun, its breath to the air. Brahman shines when the sun is seen, and it dies when it is not see. Its brightness goes to the moon, its breath to the air. Brahman shines when the moon is seen, and it dies when it is not seen. Its brightness goes to lighting, it breath to the air. Brahman shines when lightness goes to the air and die in the air, they do not perish, and so they arise again.
So much regarding deities. Now regarding oneself:
13. Brahman shines when one speaks with speech, and it dies when one does not speak. Its brightness goes to the eye, its breath to a breath. Brahman shines when one hears with the ear, and it dies when one does not hear. Its brightness goes to the mind, its breath to the breath. Brahman shines when one thinks with the mind, and it dies when one not think. Its brightness goes to the breath, its breath to the breath. Though all these deities enter the breath and die in the breath, they do not perish, and so they arise again. So when someone knows this, even if both mountains, the southern and the northern, were to roll towards him intending to crush him, they would not crush him. But those who hate him, and those whom he himself hates, die around (pari-mr) him.
14. Now the attaining of supremacy.
The deities, disputing over who was the best, left the body. It lay three, not breathing, dry, become a log. Speech eye entered it, and it still lay there, speaking with speech. The eye entered it, and it still lay there, speaking with speech, seeing with the eye. The ear entered it, and it still lay there, speaking with speech, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear. The and entered it, and it still lay there, speaking with the mind. The breath entered it, and it at once stood up.
All the deities, having acknowledge supremacy in the breath, and understood the breath as the self of awareness, left the body, all of them together. Entering the air, with space as self, they went to heaven.
In the same way, the one who knows this, having acknowledge supremacy in the breath, and understood the breath as the self of awareness, leaves the body with all of them together. Entering the air, with space as self, he goes to heaven. He goes where the gods are. Reaching that, he becomes immortal, as gods are immortal: the one who knows this.
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