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Passages similar to: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — Brahmana 3
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Hindu
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (1.3.5)
Then they [i. e. the gods] said to the Ear: * Sing for us the Udgltha/ ' So be it/ said the Ear, and sang for them. Whatever pleasure there is in the ear, that it sang for the gods; whatever good one hears, that for itself. They [i.e. the devils] knew. 'Verily, by this singer they will overcome us/ They rushed upon it and pierced it with evil. That evil was the improper thing that one hears. This, truly, was that evil.
Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (5)
Then they meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the ear, but the Asuras pierced it with evil. Therefore we hear both what should be heard and what should...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (4)
Then they meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the eye, but the Asuras pierced it with evil. Therefore we see both what is sightly and unsightly. For the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (3)
Then they meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as speech, but the Asuras pierced it with evil. Therefore we speak both truth and falsehood. For speech is...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (6)
Then they meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the mind, but the Asuras pierced it with evil. Therefore we conceive both what should be conceived and...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (2)
They meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the breath (scent) in the nose , but the Asuras pierced it (the breath) with evil. Therefore we smell by the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 11 (6)
Then the Udgâtri approached him, saying: 'Sir, you said to me, "Udgâtri, if you, without knowing the deity which belongs to the udgîtha, are going to...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 6 (8)
Rik and Sâman are his joints, and therefore he is udgîtha. And therefore he who praises him (the ut) is called the Ud-gâtri (the out-singer). He (the...
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Mesopotamian
Tablet VII (60)
Did Ea hear, and his spirit was rejoiced, (and he said
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 22 (2)
Let a man sing , wishing to obtain by his song immortality for the Devas. 'May I obtain by my song oblations (svadhâ) for the fathers, hope for men,...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (1)
When the Devas and Asuras struggled together, both of the race of Pragâpati, the Devas took the udgîtha (Om), thinking they would vanquish the Asuras...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (10)
The ear (hearing) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came round and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied:...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (7)
Then comes this breath (of life) in the mouth . They meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as that breath. When the Asuras came to it, they were scattered,...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 3 (7)
Ut is heaven, gî the sky, tha the earth. Ut is the sun, gî the air, tha the fire. Ut is the Sâma-veda,, gî the Yagur-veda, tha the Rig-veda . Speech...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter LXXVIII (3)
Oh ye gods who give ear to the words; ye foremost ones, ye who are in the train of Osiris; hush ye up, gods, that which a god speaketh with a god who...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 10 (10)
In the same manner he addressed the Udgâtri: 'Udgâtri, if you, without knowing the deity which belongs to the udgîtha (the hymns of the Udgâtri), are...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 11 (7)
He said: 'The sun (âditya). For all these beings praise the sun when it stands on high. This is the deity belonging to the udgîtha. If, without...
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Sufi
Omar and the Ambassador (21-30)
That He may bind him on the horns of a dilemma; For he says, 'Shall I do this or its reverse?' Also from God comes the preference of one alternative;...
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Zoroastrian
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (12)
(But Ahura will speak His rebuke, for) as to those doctrines which (such) men may be (basely) delivering (repelled) by the holiest action, (and...
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Zoroastrian
Yasna 45 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (5)
Yea, thus I will declare that which the most bountiful One told me, that word which is the best to be heeded by mortals. They who therein grant me...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 22 (1)
The udgîtha, of which a poet said, I choose the deep sounding note of the Sâman as good for cattle, belongs to Agni; the indefinite note belongs to...
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