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Chandogya Upanishad

Prapathaka IV, Khanda 13
Hindu trans. Max Müller • c. c. 800-600 BCE (translation 1879)
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Then the Âhavanîya fire taught him: 'Breath, ether, heaven, and lightning (these are my forms). The person that is seen in the lightning, I am he, I am he indeed.
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'He who knowing this meditates on him, destroys sin, obtains the world (of Agni Âhavanîya), reaches his full age, and lives long; his descendants do not perish. We guard him in this world and in the other, whosoever knowing this meditates on him.'