Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.24
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2.24
Thereby they do not omit the twenty-seven-fold stoma.
These bahiṣpavamāna [verses] are nine.
The gāyatrī has twenty-four syllables.
That is thirty-three.
Thereby they do not omit the thirty-three-fold stoma.
In this way indeed he officiates with the fourfold stoma.
He who knows the lowest and the highest of the stomas reaches the highest state.
The threefold stoma is the lowest of the stomas, the threefold is the highest.
Regarding this Barku Vārṣṇa said: 'I saw the threefold stoma becoming thirty-three-fold; therefore I reached the highest state.'
He reaches the highest state who knows thus.
Now Āruṇi used to say: 'Why should he practice sorcery, or why, being subjected to sorcery, should he care, who knows this threefold thunderbolt, three-pointed, unbroken, unassailable, rolling after these worlds day by day?
He by himself is struck by sorcery whom the one who knows thus hates, or who hates the one who knows thus.'
And this threefold thunderbolt, three-pointed, unbroken, unassailable, rolling after these worlds day by day, turns against him.
There is not even a slight hope for his prosperity; he only falls lower and lower.
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Regarding this Upajīva Khāḷāyana used to say: 'I know this threefold thunderbolt directly; therefore whomever I
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hate, and whoever hates me, both of them become worse and worse day by day.'
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Fire is the thunderbolt of this world, wind of the intermediate space, the sun of heaven.
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Now this regarding the self:
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What fire is, that is speech; what wind is, that is breath; what the sun is, that is the eye.
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Therefore, when I speak toward an enemy, when I breathe toward him, when I look toward him, it is the thunderbolt that I
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hurl at him.
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