Upanishads (Müller) — II, 1
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The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max Müller, [1879], at sacred-texts.com
SECOND PRAPÂTHAKA.
FIRST KHANDA.
- Meditation on the whole 1 of the Sâman is good, and people, when anything is good, say it is Sâman; when it is not good, it is not Sâman.
- Thus they also say, he approached him with Sâman, i. e. becomingly; and he approached him without Sâman, i. e. unbecomingly.
:3. And they also say, truly this is Sâman for us, i.e. it is good for us, when it is good; and truly that is not Sâman for us, i. e. it is not good for us, when it is not good.
- If any one knowing this meditates on the Sâman as good, depend upon it all good qualities will approach quickly, aye, they will become his own 2.
Footnotes
23:1 Hitherto meditation on certain portions only of the Sâma-veda and the Sâma-sacrifice had been enjoined, and their deeper meaning explained. Now the same is done for the whole of the Sâman.
23:2 Cf. Kh. Up. III, 19, 4.
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