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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 5 · Brāhmaṇa 8

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 5.8.1

वाचं धेनुम् उपासीत ।
तस्याश् चत्वारः स्तनाः ।
स्वाहाकारो वषट्कारो हन्तकारः स्वधाकारः ।
तस्यै द्वौ स्तनौ देवा उपजीवन्ति ।
स्वाहाकारं च वषट्कारं च ।
हन्तकारं मनुष्याः ।
स्वधाकारं पितरः ।
तस्याः प्राण ऋषभो मनो वत्सः ॥

vācaṃ dhenum upāsīta ।
tasyāś catvāraḥ stanāḥ ।
svāhākāro vaṣaṭkāro hantakāraḥ svadhākāraḥ ।
tasyai dvau stanau devā upajīvanti ।
svāhākāraṃ ca vaṣaṭkāraṃ ca ।
hantakāraṃ manuṣyāḥ ।
svadhākāraṃ pitaraḥ ।
tasyāḥ prāṇa ṛṣabho mano vatsaḥ ॥

Let him meditate on speech as a cow. Her four udders are the words Svâhâ, Vashat, Hanta, and Svadhâ. The gods live on two of her udders, the Svâhâ and the Vashat, men on the Hanta, the fathers on the Svadhâ. The bull of that cow is breath (prâna), the calf the mind.

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

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