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Chandogya Upanisad
Chapter Three
3. Forty-four of his years are the midday pressing. The Tristubh has forty-four syllables: the midday pressing is in Tristubh metre. The Rudras are associated with it. The breaths are the Rudras, for they cause all this to weep (rud-)
4. If some illness afflicts him during this period, he should say, 'Breaths, Rudras, extend my midday pressing to the third pressing. May I, the sacrifice, not be cut off in the middle of the breaths, the Rudras.' Then he gets over it and is cured.
5. Forty-eight of his years are the third pressing. The Jagati has forty-eight syllables: the third pressing is in Jagati metre. The Adityas are associated with it. The breaths are the Adityas, for they take (a-da-) all this.
6. If some illness afflicts him during this period, he should say, 'Breaths, Adityas, extend my third pressing to a life span. May I, the sacrifice, not be cut off in the middle of the breaths, the Adityas.' Then he gets over it and it cured.
7. Knowing this, Mahidasa Aitareya once said: 'Why do you afflict me like this? For I will not die from this. He lived a hundred and sixteen years. The one who knows this lives a hundred and sixteen years.
III.17
1. When one is hungry, when one is thirsty, when one takes no pleasure, that is one's initiation.
2. When one eats, when one drinks, when one takes pleasure, one takes part in the upasads.
3. When one laughs, when one feasts, when one makes love, one takes part in the hymns and recitations.
4. One's asceticism, giving, honesty, non-violence and truth-speaking (as they are called) are one's gifts to the priests.
5. So they say, 'She will give birth!' 'She has given birth!' This is one's resumption of the sacrifice. Death is one's bath at the end.
6. Ghora Angirasa, having taught this to Krsna son of Devaki, said-for he had become free from thirst-At the time of death one should take refuge in these three recollections: "You are the unperishing. You are the unfallen. You are the subtlest part of the breath."
There are two rc verses about it:
7. 'Yes, they see the day-like light
Of the primal seed
Which is kindled beyond in the sky.
8. 'Seeing above darkness the highest light,
Seeing, each for himself, the highest,
We have reached the sun,
The god among gods,
The highest light-
The highest light.
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