यः अयम् दक्षिणे अक्षन् पुरुषः तस्य भूर् इति शिरः एकम् शिरः एकम् एतद् अक्षरम् भुवः इति बाहू द्वौ बाहू द्वे एते अक्षरे स्वर् इति प्रतिष्ठा द्वे प्रतिष्ठे द्वे एते अक्षरे तस्योपनिषद् अहम् इति हन्ति पाप्मानं जहाति च यः एवम् वेद
yaḥ ayam dakṣiṇe akṣan puruṣaḥ tasya bhūr iti śiraḥ ekam śiraḥ ekam etad akṣaram bhuvaḥ iti bāhū dvau bāhū dve ete akṣare svar iti pratiṣṭhā dve pratiṣṭhe dve ete akṣare tasyopaniṣad aham iti hanti pāpmānaṃ jahāti ca yaḥ evam veda
Of the person in the right eye, "bhūr" is the head: the head is one and the syllable is one; "bhuvaḥ" is the arms: the arms are two and the syllables are two; "svar" is the support: the supports are two and the syllables are two. His secret name is "aham" (I): he who knows this strikes down evil and leaves it behind.
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A mirror vidyā: the ocular person is composed of the same three utterances — and his secret name is aham, "I". The pair of names completes the couple: the solar Man is "Day", the ocular one is "I": the light of the world and the light of self-awareness, one nature at two windows.
"I" as the upaniṣad of the ocular person is the deepest of the brief revelations: the first word of the Beginning (ahaṁ asmi, 1.4.1) lives in every eye; everyone who says "I" involuntarily pronounces the secret name of the One who looks out through him. And the same promise: evil is struck down — self-awareness that has recognised its source burns the darkness as the day does.