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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (Kāṇva) 4.2.3

BU 4.2.3

अथैतद् वामे ऽक्षणि पुरुषरूपम् एषास्य पत्नी विराट् । तयोर् एष संस्तावो य एषो ऽन्तर् हृदय आकाशः । अथैनयोर् एतद् अन्नं य एषो ऽन्तर् हृदये लोहितपिण्डः । अथैनयोर् एतत् प्रावरणं यद् एतद् अन्तर् हृदये जालकम् इव । अथैनयोर् एषा सृतिः संचरणी यैषा हृदयाद् ऊर्ध्वा नाड्य् उच्चरति । यथा केशः सहस्रधा भिन्न एवम् अस्यैता हिता नाम नाड्यो ऽन्तर् हृदये प्रतिष्ठिता भवन्ति । एताभिर् वा एतद् आस्रवद् आस्रवति । तस्माद् एष प्रविविक्ताहारतर इव भवत्य् अस्माच् छारीराद् आत्मनः

athaitad vāme 'kṣaṇi puruṣarūpam eṣāsya patnī virāṭ | tayor eṣa saṃstāvo ya eṣo 'ntar hṛdaya ākāśaḥ | athainayor etad annaṃ ya eṣo 'ntar hṛdaye lohitapiṇḍaḥ | athainayor etat prāvaraṇaṃ yad etad antar hṛdaye jālakam iva | athainayor eṣā sṛtiḥ saṃcaraṇī yaiṣā hṛdayād ūrdhvā nāḍy uccarati | yathā keśaḥ sahasradhā bhinna evam asyaitā hitā nāma nāḍyo 'ntar hṛdaye pratiṣṭhitā bhavanti | etābhir vā etad āsravad āsravati | tasmād eṣa praviviktāhāratara iva bhavaty asmāc chārīrād ātmanaḥ

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

‘Now that which in the shape of a person is in the right eye, is his wife, Vira^ -4. Their meeting- place is the ether within the heart, and their food the red lump within the heart. Again, their covering is that which is like net-work within the heart, and the road on which they move (from sleep to waking) is the artery that rises upwards from the heart. Like a hair divided into a thousand parts, so are the veins of it, which are called Hita, placed firmly within the heart. Through these indeed that (food) flows on flowing, and he (the Tai^asa) receives as it were purer food than the corporeal Self (the Vabvanara).

Translated by F. Max MüllerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.

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