On you, O Food, is fixed the great Gods’ desire. Great deeds were done under your sign, the Serpent slain.
Rig Veda I, 187, 6
If you have proceeded on high to the splendor of the mountain, even from there, sweet Food, return for our enjoyment.
Rig Veda I, 187, 7
From waters and plants we imbibe the choicest portion. Therefore, O Body, thrive; attain full stature.
Rig Veda I, 187, 8
He was afraid. Therefore people still are afraid when alone. He thought: Since there is nothing else but Myself, what am I afraid of? Thereupon His fears were gone; for what was there to fear? Assuredly, it is from a second entity that fear arises.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, IV-The Creation and Its Cause, 2
He was not at all happy. Therefore a person even today is not happy when alone. He desired a mate. He became the size of a man and wife in close embrace. He divided this body into two. From that division arose husband (pati) and wife (patni). Therefore,as Yajnavalkya said, the body before one accepts a wife is one half of oneself, like the half of a split pea. Therefore this space is indeed filled by the wife. He was united with her. From that union human beings were born.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, IV-The Creation and Its Cause, 3
