Then he presents him to the mother to give him her breast, uttering the mantra: O Sarasvati, that breast of thine which is fruitful, the sustainer of all, full of milk, the bestower of wealth and generous and by which thou nourishest all who are worthy-transfer that breast here to my wife, for my child to suck.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad VI, IV-Conception and Birth as Religious Rites, 27
Indefinable is the thirteenth stobha, namely, the variable syllable hum.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad I, XIII – The Mystical Meaning of the Stobha Syllables, 3
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 food-he who knows this, yea, he who knows this.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad I, XIII – The Mystical Meaning of the Stobha Syllables, 4
Om. Meditation on the whole of the Saman is good. Whatever is good, people say it is Saman; and whatever is not good, people say it is not Saman.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad II,1 – Meditation on the Fivefold Saman (I), 1
