Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.t6.19

c5.s2.t6.19

By means of sons have fathers ever
Crossed over the mighty darkness;
For one is born from oneself
A ferry laden with food.

What is the use of dirt and deer skin?
What profit in beard and austerity?
Seek a son, O Brahmin;
He is the world free of blame.

Food is breath, clothes protect.
Gold is for beauty, cattle for marriage.
The wife is a friend, a daughter brings grief.
But a son is a light in the highest heaven.

The husband enters the wife.
Becoming an embryo he enters the mother.
In her become a new man again,
He is born in the tenth month.

A wife is called wife,
Because in her he is born again.
He is productive, she’s productive,
For the seed is placed in her.

The gods and the seers
Brought to her great lustre.
The gods said to men:
“She is your mother again.”

“A sonless man has no world.”
All the beasts know this.
Therefore a son mounts
Even his mother and sister.

This is the broad and easy path
Along which travel men with sons, free from sorrow;
Beasts and birds see it;
So they copulate even with their mothers.