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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.17)
Now, in 'case one wishes, 'That a learned (pandita] daughter be born to me! that she may attain the full fength of life I '— they two should have rice boiled with sesame and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [her]. 1 8. Now, in case one wishes, 'That a son, learned, famed, a frequenter of council-assemblies, a speaker of discourse desired to be heard, be born to me! that he be able to repeat all the Vedas! that he attain the full length of life! '—they two should have rice boiled with meat and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [him], with meat, either veal or beef.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 2 (4)
If a man wishes to reach greatness, let him perform the Dîkshâ (preparatory rite) on the day of the new moon, and then, on the night of the full...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 12 (2)
'You eat food, and see your desire (a son, &c.), and whoever thus meditates on that Vaisvânara Self, eats food, sees his desire, and has Vedic glory...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 21 (2)
'And through their satisfaction he (the sacrificer or eater) himself is satisfied with offspring, cattle, health, brightness, and Vedic splendour.
Bundahishn
Chapter XVI (2)
When she is cleansed from her menstruation, and when the time for pregnancy has come, always when the seed of the man is the more powerful a son...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 19 (2)
He who thus knows the Yagñâyagñîya, as interwoven in the members of the body, becomes possessed of strong limbs, he is not crippled in any limb, he...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (6)
'Thus, my dear son, there was one part of the sixteen parts left to you, and that, lighted up with food, burnt up, and by it you remember now the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (3)
The father said to him: 'As of a great lighted fire one coal only of the size of a firefly may be left, which would not burn much more than this (i....
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.4-40.5)
Whatsoever they [the wombs or visions] may appear to be, do not regard them as they are [or seem]; and by not being attracted or repelled a good womb...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.10)
Having created mankind together with yajna in the beginning, Brahma (Creator) said – “By this shall you propagate; it shall be to you the milk-cow of...
Chandogya Upanishad
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...
Chandogya Upanishad
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,...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 10 (6)
Then he is born as rice and corn, herbs and trees, sesamum. and beans. From thence the escape is beset with most difficulties. For whoever the persons...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 8 (3)
Speech yields the milk, which is the milk of speech itself, to him who knowing this meditates on the sevenfold Sâman in speech. He becomes rich in...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 13 (4)
Speech yields the milk, which is the milk of speech itself to him who knows this Upanishad (secret doctrine) of the Sâmans in this wise. He becomes...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 15 (1)
Brahmâ (Hiranyagarbha or Paramesvara) told this to Pragâpati (Kasyapa), Pragâpati to Manu (his son), Manu to mankind. He who has learnt the Veda from...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 2 (7)
Then he eats with the following Rik verse at every foot: 'We choose that food'--here he swallows--'Of the divine Savitri (prâna)'--here he...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 17 (5)
His death is the Avabhritha ceremony (when the sacrificial Vessels are carried away to be cleansed).
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 5 (4)
'Him I sang praises to, therefore art thou my only son,' thus said Kaushîtaki to his son. 'Do thou therefore sing praises to the breath as manifold,...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 2 (9)
On this there is a Sloka: 'If during sacrifices which are to fulfil certain wishes he sees in his dreams a woman, let him know success from this...