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Hinduism · Upanishads

Aitareya, part 10I, 3, 2

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Hinduism · Upanishads

Aitareya, part 10

I, 3, 2

Max MüllerEnglish
And here they ask: 'What is the beginning of this day?' Let him say: 'Mind and speech.'
All desires dwell in the one (mind), the other yields all desires.
All desires dwell in the mind, for with the mind he conceives all desires.
All desires come to him who knows this.
Speech yields all desires, for with speech he declares all his desires.
Speech yields all desires to him who knows this.
Here they say: 'Let him not begin this day with a Rik, a Yagus, or a Sâman verse (divine speech), for it is said, he should not start with a Rik, a Yagus, or a Sâman.'
Therefore, let him say these Vyâhritis (sacred interjections) first.
These interjections Bhûs, Bhuvas, Svar are the three Vedas, Bhûs the Rig-veda, Bhuvas the Yagur-veda, Svar the Sâma-veda. Therefore (by intercalating these) he does not begin simply with a Rik, Yagus, or Sâman verse, he does not start with a Rik, Yagus, or Sâman verse.

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Sources & credits: Max Müller

Max Müller — The Upanishads (F. Max Müller) (Sacred Books of the East 1 (1879) and 15 (1884)). Public Domain. Translated by F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 and 15, public domain; transcription from the Internet Sacred Text Archive. Source