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Passages similar to: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — Brahmana 2
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Hindu
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (6.2.11)
This world, verily, is a sacrificial fire, 0 Gautama. The earth, in truth, is its fuel; fire, the smoke; night, the flame; the moon, the coals; the stars, the sparks. In this fire the gods offer rain. From this oblation food arises.
Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 4 (1)
'The altar (on which the sacrifice is supposed to be offered) is that world (heaven), O Gautama; its fuel is the sun itself, the smoke his rays, the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 6 (1)
'The altar is the earth, O Gautama; its fuel is the year itself, the smoke the ether, the light the night, the coals the quarters, the sparks the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 7 (1)
'The altar is man, O Gautama; its fuel speech itself, the smoke the breath, the light the tongue, the coals the eye, the sparks the ear.
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 5 (1)
'The altar is Parganya (the god of rain), O Gautama; its fuel is the air itself, the smoke the cloud, the light the lightning, the coals. the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 24 (5)
Then he sacrifices, saying: 'Adoration to Agni, who dwells on the earth, who dwells in the world! Obtain that world for me, the sacrificer! That is...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 6 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer rain. From that oblation rises food (corn, &c.)
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Hindu
First Vallī (14)
Yama said: 'I tell it thee, learn it from me, and when thou understandest that fire-sacrifice which leads to heaven, know, O Nakiketas, that it is...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 7 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer food. From that oblation rises seed.
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 24 (9)
Then he sacrifices, saying: 'Adoration to Vâyu (air), who dwells in the sky, who dwells in the world. Obtain that world for me, the sacrificer! That...
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Hindu
Fourth Vallī (8)
'There is Agni (fire), the all-seeing, hidden in the two fire-sticks, well-guarded like a child (in the womb) by the mother, day after day to be...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (6)
As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. the True. Yes, all these creatures, O son, ...
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Hindu
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 11 (2)
'He who meditates on fire as Brahman, obtains, resplendent himself, resplendent worlds, full of light and free of darkness; he is, as it were, lord...
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Hindu
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (4)
Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed, the wind his breath, his heart the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 8 (2)
'On that altar the Devas (prânas) offer seed, From that oblation rises the germ.
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Hindu
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 4 (2)
Heaven and earth willed, air and ether willed, water and fire willed. Through the will of heaven and earth &c. rain wills; through the will of rain fo...
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Hindu
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 11 (1)
After that the Gârhapatya fire taught him Earth, fire, food, and the sun (these are my forms, or forms of Brahman). The person that is seen in the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 24 (4)
And so it is said in this Sloka:-- 'As hungry children here on earth sit (expectantly) round their mother, so do all beings sit round the Agnihotra, y...
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Hindu
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (5)
From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed unto the...
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Hindu
First Vallī (19)
That fire all men will proclaim. Choose now, O Nakiketas, thy third boon.'...
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 24 (14)
Then he sacrifices, saying: 'Adoration to the Âdityas and to the Visve Devas, who dwell in heaven, who dwell in the world. Obtain that world for me,...
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