With the breath that dwells in creatures of two legs or four, I blow upon you as one blows on a fire just kindled. To you, O Death, to your sight and your breath, I pay homage!
Atharva Veda VIII, 2, 4
Let him live, not die! This man we now revive. I bring him healing. O Death, do not strike this man!
Atharva Veda VIII, 2, 5
A life-possessing, life-bestowing plant, powerful, salvific, potent, I here invoke, to bring this man once more to health and strength!
Atharva Veda VIII, 2, 6
His father said to him: Just as, my dear, of a great blazing fire a single coal, the size of a firefly, may be left, which would not burn much more than that, even so, my dear, of your sixteen parts only one part is left; and therefore with that one part you do not remember the Vedas. Now go and eat and you will understand me.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, VII – How the Mind consists of Food, 3
Svetaketu ate and approached his father. Then whatever his father asked him, he showed that he knew it.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, VII – How the Mind consists of Food, 4
