The eastern rays of the sun are the eastern honey-cells. The Rik-verses are the bees. The ritual laid down in the Rig-Veda is the flower. The water of the sacrificial libations is the nectar of the flower. These Riks heated the Rig-Veda. From it, thus heated, issued forth-as its essence-fame, radiance of the body, vigour of the senses, virility and the food that is eaten.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, 1 – The Honey-Doctrine (Rig-Veda), 2-3
That essence flowed forth and went toward the sun and that forms what is called the red colour of the rising sun.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, 1 – The Honey-Doctrine (Rig-Veda), 4
The southern rays of the sun are the southern honey-cells. The Yajus-verses are the bees. The ritual laid down in the Yajur-Veda is the flower. The water of the sacrificial libation is the nectar of the flower.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, II – The Honey-Doctrine (Yajur-Veda), 1
These Yajus-verses heated the Yajur-Veda. From it, thus heated, issued forth-as its essence-fame, radiance of the body, vigour of the senses, virility and the food that is eaten.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, II – The Honey-Doctrine (Yajur-Veda), 2
Now there is light, the fairest of all lights. Now comes to shining birth a glow of brightness. Night, sent away before the Sun is rising, has yielded up to morning her domain.
Rig Veda I, 113, 1
