Behold, then, the Priest, the first to perform the priestly function. He is for mortal men the immortal Light. He is born and is seated among us, not to be shaken, the immortal, increasing constantly in his own body.
Rig Veda VI, 9, 4
A steady light is set for men to gaze on, of all the moving things the swiftest Mind! All spirits divine with but one thought and intention proceed unerring toward that unique Splendor.
Rig Veda VI, 9, 5
My hearing fades away, my eyes grow dim. The light that dwells within my heart grows brighter. Far roams my mind, its confines overleaping. What shall I utter, what my mind envisage?
Rig Veda VI, 9, 6
In fear and trembling all the Gods hailed you, O Lord, when you abode amidst the darkness. O Universal Lord, accord us your grace. May the Immortal now bestow his grace upon us!
Rig Veda VI, 9, 7
Therefore a brahmin, after he is done with scholarship, should try to live on that strength which comes of scholarship. After he is done with that strength and scholarship, he becomes meditative and after he is done with both meditativeness and non-meditativeness, he becomes a knower of Brahman. How does the knower of Brahman behave? Howsoever he may behave, he is such indeed. Everything else but this is perishable. Thereupon Kahola, the son of Kushitaka, held his peace.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad III, V-Yajnavalkya and Kahola, 1 (CONT)
