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Chandogya Upanishad

Prapathaka III, Khanda 2
Hindu trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)
1
The southern rays of the sun are the honey-cells on the right. The Yagus verses are the bees, the Yagur-veda sacrifice is the flower, the water (of the sacrificial libations) is the nectar (of the flower).
2
Those very Yagus verses (as bees) brooded over the Yagur-veda sacrifice (the flower); and from it, thus brooded on, sprang as its (nectar) essence, fame, glory of countenance, vigour, strength, and health.
3
That flowed forth and went towards the sun. And that forms what we call the white (sukla) light of the sun.