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Chandogya Upanisad
Chapter Five
4. If one should aspire to greatness, one should undergo initiation on the new moon day; then on the full moon night one should prepare a stirred mixture of all herbs with yoghurt and honey. Saying, 'To the eldest, to the best, SVAHA!', one should make an offering of ghee into the fire and pour the remainder into the stirred mixture.
5. Saying, 'To the finest, SVAHA!', one should make an offering of ghee into the fire and pour the remainder into the stirred mixture.
Saying, 'To the support, SVAHA!', one should make an offering of ghee into the fire and pour the remainder into the stirred mixture.
Saying, 'To prosperity, SVAHA!', one should make an offering of ghee into the fire and pour the remainder into the stirred mixture.
Saying, 'To the dwelling-place, SVAHA!', one should make an offering of ghee into the fire and pour the remainder into the stirred mixture.
6. Then, moving quietly away, holding the stirred mixture between one's two hands, one mutters: 'Amo namasy ama hi te sarvam idam; this the eldest, the best, the king, the overlord; may he make me the eldest, the best, the king, the overlord! May I become all this!
7. Then he sips with a rc verse, foot by foot.
'We ask for the food' he sips
'Of the god Savitr' he sips
'Best and most sustaining for all' he sips
'Swiftly we meditate on Bhaga's might; he drinks it all.
After washing the bowl or ladle, he lies down behind the fire-altar, either on a hide or on the bare ground, restraining his speech and not careless. If he sees a woman, he knows that his work is successful.
8. There is a verse about it:
'When, in works concerned with desire,
One sees a woman in dreams,
One should know success there,
In the seeing of that dream,
In the seeing of that dream.'
V.3
1. Svetaketu Aruneya went to a meeting of the Pancalas.
Jaivali Pravahana said to him, 'Young man, has your father educated you?'
'He has, blessed one.'
2. 'Do you know where people go on to from here?'
'No, blessed one.'
'Do you know how they come back again?' he cried.
'No, blessed one.'
'Do you know the parting of the ways between the path of the gods and the path of the ancestors?'
'No, blessed one.'
3. 'Do you know how that world does not become full?'
'No, blessed one.'
'Do you know how, in the fifth offering, the waters take on human speech?'
'No indeed, blessed one.'
4. 'So why did you call yourself educated? How can someone who does not know these things call himself educated?"
Distressed, Svetaketu went to his father's home. He said to him, 'Blessed one, you said you had educated me when you had not educated me.
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