Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 7.1

English (machine translation) 7.1

Speech is the consecration (dīkṣā);

for through speech one consecrates oneself.

The breath is the consecrated one (dīkṣita).

By speech as consecration, by breath as the consecrated one, the gods grasped all desires on both sides and placed them in themselves.

In the very same way, the sacrificer, by speech consecrating, by breath consecrated, grasps all desires on both sides and places them in himself.

He offers an eleven-potsherd sacrificial cake to Agni and Viṣṇu.

Agni is the lowest of the gods; Viṣṇu is the highest.

Therefore, whoever is the lowest of the gods and whoever is the highest—

by these two he encompasses all deities and attains companionship in their world.

Therefore, having consecrated oneself beforehand, one may press Soma at will [even if another presses];

for the deities of him who is first have been grasped.

He consecrates himself with bodiless consecrations of breath.

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