What is the support of the Saman? Tone (svara), he replied. What is the support of tone? The prana (vital breath), he replied. What is the support of the prana? Food, he replied. What is the support of food? Water, he replied. What is the support of water? Yonder world (heaven), he replied. What is the support of yonder world? Let no one carry the Saman beyond the heavenly world. We place the Saman in the heavenly world, for the Saman is praised as heaven.<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad I, VIII – The Story of the Pravahana (I), 4-5<\/p>\n
Well then, revered Sir, let me learn it from you, said Chaikitayana. Learn it, replied Silaka. What is the support of that world? This world, he replied.<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad I, VIII – The Story of the Pravahana (I), 7<\/p>\n
What is the support of this world? Let no one carry the Saman beyond this world, which is its support. We place the Saman in this world as its support, for the Saman is praised as the support (i.e. this world).<\/p>\n
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad I, VIII – The Story of the Pravahana (I), 7<\/p>\n
When they divided up the Man, into how many parts did they divide him? What did his mouth become? What his arms? What are his legs called? What his feet?<\/p>\n
Rig Veda X, 90, 11<\/p>\n
His mouth became the brahmin; his arms became the warrior-prince, his legs the common man who plies his trade. The lowly serf was born from his feet.<\/p>\n
Rig Veda X, 90, 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the support of the Saman? Tone (svara), he replied. What is the support of tone? The prana (vital breath), he replied. What is the support of the prana? Food, he replied. What is the support of food? Water, he replied. What is the support of water? Yonder world (heaven), he replied. What is the support of yonder world? Let no one carry the Saman beyond the heavenly world. We place the Saman in the heavenly world, for the Saman is praised as heaven. Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad I, VIII – The Story of the Pravahana (I), 4-5 Well <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vedic-verses","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}