The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter XIII
The Mystical Meaning of the Stobha Syllables
This Earth is verily the syllable hau; the air is the
syllable hai; the moon is the syllable atha; the self is the
syllable iha; the fire is the syllable i.
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The sun is the syllable u; the invocation is the syllable
e; the Visve-devas are the syllable au-ho-i; Prajapati
is the syllable him; the prana the syllable svara; food
is the syllable ya; Virat is the syllable vak.
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Indefinable is the thirteenth stobha, namely, the
variable syllable hum.
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To him who knows this secret knowledge of the
Samans, speech yields milk and milk is speech. He
becomes the possessor of food and the eater of foodhe
who knows this, yea, he who knows this.
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