Upaniṣads · Chāndogya 2,7.1
॥
Devanāgarī
प्राणेषु पञ्चविधम् परोवरीयः सामोपासीत प्राणः हिङ्कारः वाक् प्रस्तावः चक्षुः उद्गीथः श्रोत्रम् प्रतिहारः मनः निधनम् परोवरीयांसि वै एतानि
Transliteración (IAST)
prāṇeṣu pañcavidham parovarīyaḥ sāmopāsīta prāṇaḥ hiṅkāraḥ vāk prastāvaḥ cakṣuḥ udgīthaḥ śrotram pratihāraḥ manaḥ nidhanam parovarīyāṃsi vai etāni
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SánscritoIASTSignificado
प्राणेषुprāṇeṣuin the vital powers (prāṇa); in the prāṇas; in the breath-powers
पञ्चविधम्pañcavidhamfivefold; of five parts
परोवरीयःparovarīyaḥhigher and ever higher (parovarīyas); ever-surpassing; higher and higher
सामोपासीतsāmopāsītait should be venerated as the sāman; let him contemplate the sāman
प्राणःprāṇaḥthe prāṇa; the vital breath
हिङ्कारःhiṅkāraḥhiṅkāra; the opening call hiṅ
वाक्vākspeech; the word
प्रस्तावःprastāvaḥprastāva; the opening part of the sāman
चक्षुःcakṣuḥthe eye; sight
उद्गीथःudgīthaḥudgītha; the exalted chant
श्रोत्रम्śrotramthe ear; hearing
प्रतिहारःpratihāraḥpratihāra; the responding part
मनःmanaḥthe mind; thinking
निधनम्nidhanamnidhana; the conclusion; the dissolution
परोवरीयांसिparovarīyāṃsihigher and higher; surpassing
वैvaiverily; indeed
एतानिetānithese; all these
Traducción
In the vital powers one should venerate the fivefold sāman that is higher-and-ever-higher: the prāṇa is the hiṅkāra, speech the prastāva, the eye the udgītha, hearing the pratihāra, the mind the nidhana. Higher and ever higher are these [members].
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The sixth and crowning field is man himself, from within: prāṇeṣu — in the vital powers: breath is the striking-up (everything begins with an in-breath!), speech the setting-forth, the eye the lifting-up, hearing the taking-up, the mind the cadence (all that is received resolves in the mind). And the title of this sāman is parovarīyaḥ — "higher-and-ever-higher" (the very word from the close of the first adhyāya!): parovarīyāṁsi vā etāni — "these members rise each above the last": the inward song is a stairway in which every next beat stands higher than the one before.
The series has closed its circle: the worlds, rain, the waters, the year, the cattle — and now the singer himself: the same fivefoldness that sounds in a thunderstorm and in a year sounds in his breath, word, glance, hearing and thought: man is a sāman among sāmans, and the highest at that: in him the world's song becomes conscious of itself. It remains to receive the fruit — and it will be proportioned to the height.