Upanishads · Chāndogya 2,3.2
॥
Devanāgarī
उद्गृह्णाति तत् निधनम् वर्षयति ह यः एतत् एवम् विद्वान् वृष्टौ पञ्चविधम् सामोपास्ते
Transliteration (IAST)
udgṛhṇāti tat nidhanam varṣayati ha yaḥ etat evam vidvān vṛṣṭau pañcavidham sāmopāste
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
उद्गृह्णातिudgṛhṇātiit lets up (ud-√grah — 'to draw up'); it stops; it gathers up [its streams]
तत्tatthat; this
निधनम्nidhanamnidhana; the conclusion; the dissolution
वर्षयतिvarṣayatihe causes rain (causative of √vṛṣ); he brings rain [for others]; he draws down rain
हhaindeed; surely
यःyaḥwho; the one who
एतत्etatthis; all this
एवम्evamthus; in this way
विद्वान्vidvānknowing; wise
वृष्टौvṛṣṭauin the rain; in the process of raining
पञ्चविधम्pañcavidhamfivefold; of five parts
सामोपास्तेsāmopāstehe venerates as the sāman; he contemplates the sāman
Translation
it lets up — that is the nidhana. And he who, knowing this thus, venerates the fivefold sāman in rain brings rain.
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The close of the storm-service: udgṛhṇāti — "[the rain] lets up, draws itself in" — the nidhana, the cadence: the silence after a downpour is part of the song too: knowing how to end is also music.
And the fruit by likeness: varṣayati ha — "he brings rain" — the knower of rain's fivefoldness: a contemplator of the storm-liturgy becomes its officiant: the sky answers one who honours its song part by part. Behind this "rain-making" stands the general law of the series: a process deeply known opens itself to governance — not by violence done to it but by knowledge of its beats: so a helmsman "rules" a river by knowing its currents. To know a concord is to be its kin; and to kin, concord does not say no.