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Major Upaniṣads · 8.4
तमभ्यतपत्तस्याभितप्तस्य मुखं निरभिद्यत यथाऽण्डं मुखाद्वाग्वाचोऽग्निर्नासिके निरभिद्येताम् नासिकाभ्यां प्राणः । प्राणाद्वायुरक्षिणी निरभिद्येतामक्षीभ्यां चक्षुश्चक्षुष आदित्यः कर्णौ निरभिद्येतां कर्णाभ्यां श्रोत्रं श्रोत्रद्दिशस्त्वङ्निरभिद्यत त्वचो लोमानि लोमभ्य ओषधिवनस्पतयो हृदयं निरभिद्यत हृदयान्मनो मनसश्चन्द्रमा नाभिर्निरभिद्यत नाभ्या अपानोऽपानान्मृत्युः शिश्नं निरभिद्यत शिश्नाद्रेतो रेतस आपः ॥

tamabhyatapattasyābhitaptasya mukhṃ nirabhidyata yathā'ṇḍṃ mukhādvāgvāco'gnirnāsike nirabhidyetām nāsikābhyāṃ prāṇḥ | prāṇādvāyurakṣiṇī nirabhidyetāmakṣībhyāṃ cakṣuścakṣuṣa ādityḥ karṇau nirabhidyetāṃ karṇābhyāṃ śrotrṃ śrotraddiśastvaṅnirabhidyata tvaco lomāni lomabhya oṣadhivanaspatayo hr̥dayṃ nirabhidyata hr̥dayānmano manasaścandramā nābhirnirabhidyata nābhyā apāno'pānānmr̥tyuḥ śiśnṃ nirabhidyata śiśnādreto retasa āpḥ ||

“It brooded over him; from the heated one a mouth broke open like an egg — from mouth came speech, from speech fire; nostrils broke open — from nostrils breath, from breath wind; eyes broke open — from eyes sight, from sight the sun; ears broke open — from ears hearing, from hearing the quarters; skin broke open — from skin hairs, from hairs herbs and trees; heart broke open — from heart mind, from mind the moon; navel broke open — from navel the down-breath, from down-breath death; the organ broke open — from it seed, from seed the waters.”

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