अथ अस्य मातरम् अभिमन्त्रयते इला असि मैत्रावरुणी वीरे वीरम् अजीजनत् सा त्वम् वीरवती भव या अस्मान् वीरवतः अकरद् इति तम् वा एतम् आहुः अतिपिता बत अभूः अतिपितामहः बत अभूः परमां बत काष्ठां प्राप श्रिया यशसा ब्रह्मवर्चसेन यः एवंविदः ब्राह्मणस्य पुत्रः जायत इति
atha asya mātaram abhimantrayate ilā asi maitrāvaruṇī vīre vīram ajījanat sā tvam vīravatī bhava yā asmān vīravataḥ akarad iti tam vā etam āhuḥ atipitā bata abhūḥ atipitāmahaḥ bata abhūḥ paramāṃ bata kāṣṭhāṃ prāpa śriyā yaśasā brahmavarcasena yaḥ evaṃvidaḥ brāhmaṇasya putraḥ jāyata iti
Then he addresses the child's mother: "You are Ilā, daughter of Mitra and Varuṇa; a wife of a husband, you have borne a hero. Be rich in heroes — you who have made us rich in a hero!" And of such a son they say: "Oh, you have surpassed your father! oh, you have surpassed your grandfather! He has reached the highest limit in happiness, in glory, in the splendour of a brāhmaṇa — he who is born as the son of one who knows thus."
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The end of the code is a double magnifying. To the mother: "you are Ilā, daughter of Mitra and Varuṇa" — she who has given birth is raised to the rank of the ancient goddess of sacrificial plenty; the household honours her as the author of the victory: "you have borne a hero". The glory of the childbed belongs in this house to the wife.
And the blessing on the son is the one with which the whole science of offspring ends: atipitā batābhūḥ — "oh, you have surpassed your father! surpassed your grandfather!" We heard this law in the cosmogony: "the higher creation is when a mortal creates what surpasses him" (1.4.6); here it has become a family toast: the aim of a birth is to surpass those who gave it. So the Upaniṣad's last instruction closes: with a household in which the wife is a goddess, the infant is the Veda, and every generation is called to be higher than the last "in happiness, in glory, in the splendour of a brāhmaṇa".