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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 14 (5.14.4)
This Gayatrl is based upon that fourth, sightly foot, the one above-the-darksome. That is based upon truth (satya). Verily, truth is sight, for verily, truth is sight. Therefore if now two should come disputing, saying ' I have seen! ' c I have heard! ' we should trust the one who would say c I have seen/ Verily, that truth is based on strength (bald). Verily, strength is life (prand). It is based on life. Therefore they say, s Strength is more powerful than truth. contents. s Similarly referring to the Sama-Veda. Thus is that Gayatii based with regard to the Self (adky- atmam). It protects the house-servants. Verily, the house- servants are the vital breaths (prand). So it protects the vital breaths. Because it protects (V ' tra) the house-servants (gaya\ therefore it is called Gayatri. That Savitrl stanza which one repeats is just this. For whomever one repeats it, it protects his vital breaths.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 12 (1)
The Gâyatrî (verse) is everything whatsoever here exists. Gâyatrî indeed is speech, for speech sings forth (gâya-ti) and protects (trâya-te)...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 12 (5-6)
That Gâyatrî has four feet and is sixfold . And this is also declared by a Rik verse (Rig-Veda X, 90, 3):-- (6) 'Such is the greatness of it (of...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 12 (2)
That Gâyatrî is also the earth, for everything that here exists rests on the earth, and does not go beyond.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 11 (2)
He who thus knows this Gâyatra interwoven in the prânas, keeps his senses, reaches the full life, he lives long , becomes great with children and...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 11 (1)
The hiṅkâra is mind, the prastâva speech, the udgîtha sight, the pratihâra hearing, the nidhana breath. That is the Gâyatra Sâman, as interwoven in...
Chandogya Upanishad
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...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 18 (2)
That Brahman (mind) has four feet (quarters). Speech is one foot, breath is one foot, the eye is one foot, the car is one foot-so much with reference...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 3 (6)
Let a man meditate on the syllables of the udgîtha, i. e. of the word udgîtha. Ut is breath (prâna), for by means of breath a man rises...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 18 (4)
Breath is indeed the fourth foot of Brahman. That foot shines with Vâyu (air) as its light, and warms. He who knows this, shines and warms through...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 18 (3)
Speech is indeed the fourth foot of Brahman. That foot shines with Agni (fire) as its light, and warms. He who knows this, shines and warms through...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 18 (5)
The eye is indeed the fourth foot of Brahman. That foot shines with Âditya (sun) as its light, and warms. He who knows this, shines and warms through...
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, Second Khanda (1)
This is the truth: the sacrificial works which they (the poets) saw in the hymns (of the Veda) have been performed in many ways in the Tretâ age....
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 7 (4)
'He who knows this and meditates on the foot of Brahman, consisting of four quarters, by the name of Gyotishmat, becomes full of light in this world....
Mundaka Upanishad
Third Mundaka, First Khanda (6)
The true prevails, not the untrue; by the true the path is laid out, the way of the gods (devayânah), on which the old sages, satisfied in their...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 1 (9)
By that syllable does the threefold knowledge (the sacrifice, more particularly the Soma-sacrifice, as founded on the three Vedas) proceed. When the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 18 (2)
'Of that Vaisvânara Self the head is Sutegas (having good light), the eye Visvarûpa (multiform), the breath Prithagvartman (having various courses),...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 12 (7)
The Brahman which has been thus described (as immortal with three feet in heaven, and as Gâyatrî) is the same as the ether which is around us;
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 4 (4)
When a man has mastered the Rig-veda, he says quite loud Om; the same, when he has mastered the Sâman and the Yagus. This Svara is the imperishable...