Meet Yama and the Fathers in the highest heaven along with your offerings and praiseworthy deeds. Rid of imperfection, seek again your dwelling and assume a body, bright with glory.
Rig Veda X, 14, 8
[To the evil spirits] Off with you, spirits! Flee, rampage elsewhere! For him the Fathers have prepared this place. Yama will grant him a place of relaxation, where days and nights rotate and waters flow.
Rig Veda X, 14, 9
[To the deceased] Speed on your happy pathway, outstripping the two brindled dogs, each with four eyes, sons of Indra’s messenger. Then approach the kindly Fathers who rejoice in the fellowship of Yama.
Rig Veda X, 14, 10
Richah, Yajumshi and Samani form eight syllables and the second foot of the Gayatri consists of eight syllables. So these three Vedas constitute the second foot of the Gayatri. Whosoever thus knows the second foot of the Gayatri wins as much as that treasury of knowledge, the three Vedas, has to confer.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V, XIV-The Sacred Gayatri, 2
Prana, apana and vyana form eight syllables and the third foot of the Gayatri. consists of eight syllables. So these three forms of the vital breath constitute the third foot of the Gayatri. Whosoever knows this about the third foot of the Gayatri wins all the living beings that are in the universe. Now, its turiya, apparently visible (darsata) and supramundane (paroraja) foot is this-sun that glows yonder. That which is fourth is called turiya. He (the being in the solar orb) is apparently visible (darsata), because he is seen, as it were, by the yogis. He is supramundane (paroraja), because he shines alone on the whole universe as its overlord. He who thus knows the fourth foot of the Gayatri shines with splendour and glory.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad V, XIV-The Sacred Gayatri, 3
