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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 3 · Brāhmaṇa 9

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 3.9.3

कतमे वसव इति ।
अग्निश् च पृथिवी च वायुश् चान्तरिक्षं चादित्यश् च द्यौः च चन्द्रमाश् च नक्षत्राणि चैते वसवः ।
एतेषु हीदं सर्वं वसु हितं इति तस्माद् वसव इति ॥

katame vasava iti ।
agniś ca pṛthivī ca vāyuś cāntarikṣaṃ cādityaś ca dyauḥ ca candramāś ca nakṣatrāṇi caite vasavaḥ ।
eteṣu hīdaṃ sarvaṃ vasu hitaṃ iti tasmād vasava iti ॥

He asked: 'Who are the Vasus.' Yâgñavalkya replied: 'Agni (fire), Prithivî (earth), Vâyu (air), Antariksha (sky), Âditya (sun), Dyu (heaven), Kandramas (moon), the Nakshatras (stars), these are the Vasus, for in them all that dwells (this world) rests; and therefore they are called Vasus.'

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 15 (1884)

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