The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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What, then, is the Rik? What is the Saman? What
is the Udgitha? This is to be considered.
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Speech, indeed, is the Rik; the vital breath (prana) is
the Saman; the syllable Om is the Udgitha. Speech and
the prana, or the Rik and the Saman, form a couple.
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And that couple become united in the syllable Om.
When a pair come together they fulfil each other‟s
desire.
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He who knows this as stated above and meditates
on the syllable Om, the Udgitha, becomes, indeed,
a fulfiller of desires.
This syllable Om is used to give assent, for wherever
one assents to something, one says Om (yes). Now, what
is assent is gratification. He who knows this and
meditates on the syllable Om, the Udgitha, becomes,
indeed, a gratifier of desires.
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By means of this syllable the threefold knowledge
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