Come breath, come mind, come eye, come strength! Let the body resume and integrate its power! Let it stand firm and steady on its feet!
Atharva Veda V, 30, 13
Reunite him to his breath, O Agni, to his sight! set his whole body and its powers in motion! You know the secret of deathlessness. May he stay, not depart to a house of clay!
Atharva Veda V, 30, 14
As here on earth hungry children gather around their mother, so do all beings gather around the Agnihotra sacrifice, yea around the Agnihotra sacrifice.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, XXIV – The Glory of the Agnihotra Sacrifice, 5
Om. There once lived Svetaketu the grandson of Aruna. To him his father said: Svetaketu, lead the life of a brahmacharin; for there is none belonging to our family, my dear, who, not having studied the Vedas, is a brahmin only by birth.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, I – The Non-Duality of the Self, 1
Svetaketu went to his teacher’s house when he was twelve years old and studied the Vedas till he was twenty-four. Then he returned to his father, serious, considering himself well read and arrogant. His father said to him: Svetaketu, since you are now so serious, think yourself well read and are so arrogant, have you, my dear, ever asked for that instruction by which one hears what cannot be heard, by which one perceives what cannot be perceived, by which one knows what cannot be known? Svetaketu asked: What is that instruction, venerable Sir?
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad VI, I – The Non-Duality of the Self, 2-3
