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Chandogya Upanisad
Chapter Three
III.1
1. OM. The sun is the honey of the gods. The sky is its horizontal cane, middle-air its honeycomb, the rays its larvae.
2. Its eastward rays are the eastward honey-veins. The rc verses are the bees, the Rigveda the flower, the nectar of immortality the nectar. The rc verses
3. Heated up the Rigveda. When it was heated up, its essence was produced from it, as fame, brightness, strength, energy and good food.
4. It flowed out and settled beside the sun. This is what is now the red form of the sun.
III.2
1. Its southward rays are the southward honey-veins. The yajus verses are the bees, the Yajurveda the flower, the nectar of immortality the nectar.
2. The yajus verses heated up the Yajurveda. When it was heated up, its essence was produced from it, as fame, brightness, strength, energy and good food.
3. It flowed out and settled beside the sun. This is what is now the white form of the sun.
III.3
1. Its westward rays are the westward honey-veins. The saman verses are the bees, the Samaveda the flower, the nectar of immortality the nectar.
2. The saman verses heated up the Samaveda. When it was heated up, its essence was produced from it, as fame, brightness, strength, energy and good food.
3. It flowed out and settled beside the sun. This is what is now the black form of the sun.
III.4
1. Its northward rays are the northward honey-veins. The verses of the Atharvans and Angirases are the bees, the histories and legends the flower, the nectar of immortality the nectar.
2. The verses of the Atharvans and Angirases heated up the histories and legends. When they were heated up, their essence was produced from them, as fame, brightness, strength, energy and good food.
3. It flowed out and settled beside the sun. This is what is now the deeper-than-black form of the sun.
III.5
1. Its upward rays are the upward honey-veins. The secret symbolic statements are the bees, brahman the flower, the nectar of immortality the nectar.
2. The secret teachings heated up brahman. When it was heated up, its essence was produced from it, as fame, brightness, strength, energy and good food.
3. It flowed out and settled beside the sun. This is what now seems to tremble in the midst of the sun.
4. These are the essences of essences, for the Vedas are the essences and these are the essences of them. These are the nectars of nectars, for the Vedas are the nectars and these are the essences of them.
III.6
1. The Vasus, with Agni as their chief, live on the first of these nectars. Gods do not eat or drink: they are satisfied just by seeing the nectar.
2. They enter into this form and out of this form they arise.
3. The one who knows the nectar in this way becomes one of the Vasus, with Agni as his chief, and is satisfied just by seeing the nectar. He enters into this form and out of this form he arises.
4. As long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west he will encompass the overlordship and kingship of the Vasus.
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