I take your hand in mine for happiness, that you may reach old age with me as husband. Bhaga, Savitri, Aryaman, Purandhi, have given you to be my household’s mistress.
Rig Veda X, 85, 36
The following are the mantras: I shall now disclose that the father produced seven kinds of food through meditation and rites. One is common to all eaters. Two he assigned to the gods. Three he designed for himself. And one he gave to the animals. On it (food) rests everything-whatsoever breathes and whatsoever breathes not. Why are not these foods exhausted although they are always being eaten? He who knows the cause of this inexhaustibility of the food eats food with pre-eminence (pratika). He obtains identity with the gods and lives on nectar.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, V-Manifestations of Prajapati, 1
Therefore one should not engage in sacrifices for material ends. When it is said: One he gave to the animals, the statement refers to milk; for at first men and animals live on milk alone. That is why they first make a new-born babe lick melted butteror they put it to the breast. And they speak of the new-born calf as not yet eating grass. When it is said: On it rests everything-whatsoever breathes and whatsoever breathes not, it means that everything rests on milk, all that breathes and breathes not. It is further said in another Brahmana that by making offerings of milk in the fire for a year one overcomes further death; but one should not think thus. For he who knows this overcomes further death the very day he makes the offering, because he offers all eatable food to the gods.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, V-Manifestations of Prajapati, 2 (CONT)
When it is asked: Why are not these foods exhausted although they are always being eaten? the answer is that the eater is indeed the cause of this inexhaustibility, for he produces this food again and again. When it is said: He who knows the cause of this inexhaustibility, the statement means that the eater is indeed the cause of this inexhaustibility, for he produces this food through meditation and rites. If he did not do this the food would be exhausted. When it is said: He eats food with pratika the word pratika means pre-eminence; hence the meaning is that he eats food pre-eminently. The statement: He obtains identity with the gods and lives on nectar, is a eulogy.
,Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, V-Manifestations of Prajapati, 2 (CONT)
Three he designed for himself-that is to say, the mind, the organ of speech and the vital breath; these he designed for himself. They say: My mind was elsewhere, I did not see it; my mind was elsewhere, I did not hear it. It is clear that a man sees with his mind and hears with his mind. Desire, determination, doubt, faith, lack of faith, steadfastness, lack of steadfastness, shame, intelligence and fear-all this is truly the mind. Even if one is touched from behind, one knows it through the mind; therefore the mind exists. Whatever sound there is, it is just the organ of speech; for it serves to determine a thing, but it cannot itself be revealed. The prana, apana, vyana, udana, samana and ana-all these are but the vital breath (prana). This body (atma) consists of these-the organ of speech, the mind and the vital breath.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, V-Manifestations of Prajapati, 3
