1. This is the truth. As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto
fire, fly forth a thousandfold, thus are various beings brought forth
from the Imperishable, my friend, and return thither also.
2. That heavenly Person is without body, he is both without and
within, not produced, without breath and without mind, pure, higher
than the high Imperishable.
3. From him (when entering on creation) is born breath, mind, and
all organs of sense, ether, air, light, water, and the earth, the
support of all.
4. Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the
quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed, the wind his breath,
his heart the universe; from his feet came the earth; he is indeed the
inner Self of all things.
5. From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon
(Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed
unto the woman. Thus many beings are begotten from the Person (purusha).
6. From him come the Rik, the Saman, the Yagush, the Diksha,
(initiatory rites), all sacrifices and offerings of animals, and the
fees bestowed on priests, the year too, the sacrificer, and the worlds,
in which the moon shines brightly and the sun.
7. From him the many Devas too are begotten, the Sadhyas (genii),
men, cattle, birds, the up and down breathings, rice and corn (for
sacrifices), penance, faith, truth, abstinence, and law.
8. The seven senses (prâna) also spring from him, the seven lights
(acts of sensation), the seven kinds of fuel (objects by which the
senses are lighted), the seven sacrifices (results of sensation), these
seven worlds (the places of the senses, the worlds determined by the
senses) in which the senses move, which rest in the cave (of the
heart), and are placed there seven and seven.
9. Hence come the seas and all the mountains, from him flow the
rivers of every kind; hence come all herbs and the juice through which
the inner Self subsists with the elements.
10. The Person is all this, sacrifice, penance, Brahman, the highest
immortal; he who knows this hidden in the cave (of the heart), he, O
friend, scatters the knot of ignorance here on earth.
