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Section 7.5

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चित्तं वाव संकल्पाद् भूयः । यदा वै चेतयते ऽथ संकल्पयते । अथ मनस्यति । अथ वाचम् ईरयति । ताम् उ नाम्नीयूअति । नाम्नि मन्त्रा एकं भवन्ति । मन्त्रेषु कर्माणि

cittaṃ vāva saṃkalpād bhūyaḥ | yadā vai cetayate 'tha saṃkalpayate | atha manasyati | atha vācam īrayati | tām u nāmnīyūati | nāmni mantrā ekaṃ bhavanti | mantreṣu karmāṇi

Consideration (kitta) is better than will. For when a man considers, then he wills, then he thinks in his mind, then he sends forth speech, and he sends it forth in a name. In a name the sacred hymns are contained, in the sacred hymns all sacrifices.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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