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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.6.1

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 1.6.1

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1.6.1

trayaṃ vā idaṃ nāma rūpaṃ karma teṣāṃ nāmnāṃ vāgityetadeṣāmukthamato hi sarvāṇi nāmānyuttiṣṭhanti | etadeṣām̐ sāmaitaddhi sarvairnāmabhiḥ samametadeṣāṃ brahmaitaddhi sarvāṇi nāmāni bibharti

This (universe) indeed consists of three things: name, form and action. Of those names, speech (sound in general) is the Uktha (source), for all names spring from it. It is their Sâman (common feature), for it is common to all names. It is their Brahman (self), for it sustains all names.

Swami Madhavananda 1934, The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

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