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The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max Müller, [1879], at sacred-texts.com

FOURTH KHANDA.

1. Let a man meditate on the fivefold Sâman in all waters. When the clouds gather, that is the hiṅkâra; when it rains, that is the prastâva that which flows in the east ², that is the udgîtha that which flows in the west ³, that is the pratihâra the sea is the nidhana.

2. He does not die in water ⁴, nay, he is rich in

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water who knowing this meditates on the fivefold Sâman as all waters.

Footnotes

24:2 The Ganges, &c. Comm.

24:3 The Narmadâ, &c. Comm.

24:4 The commentator adds, 'unless he wishes to die in the Ganges.'