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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.7

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 5.7

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5.7.1

vidyudbrahmetyāhurvidānādvidyudvidyatyenaṃ pāpmano ya evaṃ veda vidyudbrahmeti vadyuddhyeva brahma

They say that lightning is Brahman, because lightning (vidyut) is called so from cutting off (vidânât). Whosoever knows this, that lightning is Brahman, him (that Brahman) cuts off from evil, for lightning indeed is Brahman.

Friedrich Max Müller 1884, The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)

5.7.1.p1

iti pañcamādhyāye saptamaṃ brāhmaṇam

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