The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

of a lizard.
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Verily, the person who knows this is himself that
Prajapati who is endowed with sixteen parts and who is
represented by the year. Wealth constitutes fifteen of his
parts and the body is his sixteenth part. He is increased
and decreased by that wealth. This body is the nave and
wealth is the felloe. Therefore even if a man loses
everything, but lives in his body, people say that he has
lost only his felloe which can be restored again.
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Now, these are, verily, the three worlds: the world of
men, the world of the Manes and the world of the gods.
The world of men can be gained through a son only and
by no other rite; the world of the Manes through rites;
and the world of the gods through meditation. The
world of the gods is the best of the worlds. Therefore
they praise meditation.
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Now therefore follows the entrusting: When a man
thinks he is about to die, he says to his son: "You are
Brahman, you are the sacrifice and you are the world."
The son replies: "I am Brahman, I am the sacrifice, I am
the world." The Sruti explains the thoughts of the father:
"Whatever has been studied by me (the father) is all
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