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Maitri Upanisad
Chapter Six
23. Elsewhere it has been said: What the sound is OM: this is the imperishable. The peak of it is peaceful, soundless, fearless, sorrowless,joyful, content, known, steadfast, immovable, immortal, unfallen, constant, known as Visnu: one should whorship it to achieve supremacy over all. Someone has said:
The god, the higher and the lower,
Is called by name the OM:
Without sound, become void,
One should then concentrate on it in its place in the head.
24. Elsewhere it has been said: The body is the how; OM is the arrow; the mind is its point. By piercing the target of darkness one comes to the darkness which is pervaded by non-darkness. Then by piercing that which is pervaded, one has seen the supreme Brahman, blazing like a circle of torch-light, the colour of the sun, powerful, beyond the darkness. That which is in the sun shines also in the moon, in fire and in lightning. By seeing it, one becomes immortal. Someone has said:
The meditation on the supreme entity within
Is placed on the objects of sense,
So the knowledge that is without distinction
Becomes subject to distinction.
The joy that is witnessed by the self
When the mind is dissolved
Is Brahman, the immortal, the pure:
It is the bourne, it is the world.
25. Elsewhere it has been said: when one’s senses are hidden as if by sleep, then, unmastered, with completely pure mind one sees, as if in a dream in a gap in the senses, the one who leads on out (pranetr) who is called the OM (pranava), in the form of light, free from sleep, free from old age, from death, and free from sorrow. Then one also becomes one who leads on out who is called OM, in the form of light, free from sleep, free from old age, free from death, and free from sorrow. Someone has said:
Since one joins or unites (Yuj-)
In many ways
Breath and OM and all,
It is known as yoga.
Since it is the oneness of breath and mind
And senses too,
The renunciation of all becoming
Is named yoga.
26. Elsewhere it has been said: Just as a bird catcher draws up the water-fowl with a device made of net, and offers them in the fire that is his belly, so one draws up the breaths with the OM and offers them in a fire that is free from disease. Then one is like a heated pot. Just as a heated pot blazes up through contact with melted butter, grass or sticks, the one who is called ‘one-breath’ blazes up through contacts with breath. That which blazes u is the form of Brahma, Vishnu’s highest step, the Rudra-ness of Rudra. Divided up into countless parts it fills the worlds. Someone has said:
Just like sparks from fire
Come rays from the sun,
And so too do breaths, etc.
Come forth in order here.
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