Kaṭha Āraṇyaka 2.9

2.9

sarvasyādhipatyaṃ yajamānaṃ gamayati 100 anavadyābhissamu jagmābhiriti . hotrā vā anavadyās . tābhirvā eṣa pravargye saṅgaśchate tābhireva pravargyam̐ saṅgamayati 101 samudra āsāṃ sadanaṃ va āhuriti . vedā vai samudrā s . teṣu vā evainampravargye saṅgamayati 101-1 --- abhriye didyunnakṣatriye yā viśvāvasuṃ gandharvaṃ sacadhve tābhyo namo astu tā no mṛḻayantu tā naśśarma yaśchantu taṃ yandviṣmo yaśca no dveṣṭi tamāsāṃ jambhe dadhmaḥ 101-2 --- apaśyaṃ gopāmanipadyamānamiti . --- āditya . eṣa lokānāṃ goptā . naiṣa rātrā na divā saṃviśati 101-3 ā ca parā ca pathibhiścarantamiti . tasmādeṣa sarvānpatho'nusañcarati yaddakṣiṇā yadudaṅ 102 sa sadhrīcīssa viṣūcīrvasāna iti . catasro vā etasya diśassadhrīcīścatasro viṣūcīs . tā vā eṣa vasāna imāṃ llokāṃsteja-sāvṛṇoti 103 atra prāvīrmadhu mādhvībhyāṃ madhu mādhūcībhyāmiti 104 yadā rucito gharma iti madhu madhugham̐ sambhariṣyāmītyevaitadāha 105 samagniragnināgata saṃ devena savitrā sam̐ sūryeṇa rocate svāheti . atra vā eṣa etarhyagniragninā saṅgaśchate 107 samagnistapasāgata saṃ devena savitrā saṃ sūryeṇārukta . dhartā divo rajaso vibhāti dhartororantarikṣasya dhartā pṛthivyā dhartā devo devānāmamartyastapojā iti . asau vā āditya imāṃ llokāṃstejasā dhārayati 108 hṛde tvā manase tvā dive tvā sūryāya tvetyamumevainaṃ lokaṃ gamayati 109 ūrdhvamimamadhvaramiti yajño vā adhvaro yajñasyordhvatvāya 110 divi deveṣu hotrā yaścheti . hotrābhi--- ---ta 111 garbho devānāmpitā matīnāmpatiḥ prajānāmiti garbho hyeṣa devānām .

He leads the sacrificer to overlordship over everything. "Together with the faultless ones, the gatherings": the priestly functions are the faultless ones; with them he unites at the Pravargya; with them he unites the Pravargya. "The ocean they call your seat": the Vedas are the oceans; in them he unites him at the Pravargya. "... of the clouds, lightning, of the constellations, you who accompany the Gandharva Viśvāvasu, homage be to them; may they be gracious to us, may they grant us protection; him whom we hate and who hates us, him we place in their jaws!" "I saw the herdsman who does not rest": the sun; he is the herdsman of the worlds; he does not rest by night nor by day. "Moving hither and thither along the paths": therefore he wanders along all paths, whether southward or northward. "Clad in those converging and those diverging": four quarters are his converging, four diverging; clad in them he covers these worlds with fiery energy. "Here you protected the sweet thing for the two sweet ones, the sweetness for the two desiring sweetness." "When the Gharma has shone": "I shall gather sweet honey" is what he says. "Agni has met with fire, with the divine Savitṛ, he shines with the sun, svāhā!": here indeed now fire meets with fire. "Agni has met with heat, with the divine Savitṛ, he has shone with the sun. The upholder of heaven shines across the mist, the upholder of the broad intermediate space, the upholder of earth, the upholder god of gods, immortal, born of heat": yonder sun upholds these worlds with fiery energy. "For the heart to you, for the mind to you, for heaven to you, for the sun to you": to yonder world he leads him. "This rite upward!": the sacrificial rite is the sacrifice; [it is] for the upward direction of the sacrifice. "Extend the offerings among the gods in heaven": with the offerings […] "Embryo of the gods, father of thoughts, lord of creatures": for he is the embryo of the gods.