अथ अतः सम्प्रत्तिः यदा प्रैष्यन् मन्यते अथ पुत्रम् आह त्वं ब्रह्म त्वं यज्ञः त्वं लोकः इति सः पुत्रः प्रत्याह अहम् ब्रह्म अहम् यज्ञः अहम् लोकः इति यद् वै किञ्च अनूक्तम् तस्य सर्वस्य ब्रह्म इति एकता ये वै के च यज्ञाः तेषाम् सर्वेषाम् यज्ञः इति एकता ये वै के च लोकाः तेषाम् सर्वेषाम् लोकः इति एकता एतावत् वा इदम् सर्वम् एतन् मा सर्वम् सन्न् अयम् इतो भुनजत् इति तस्मात् पुत्रम् अनुशिष्टम् लोक्यम् आहुः तस्मात् एनम् अनुशासति सः यदा एवंवित् अस्मात् लोकात् प्रैति अथ एभिः एव प्राणैः सह पुत्रम् आविशति सः यदि अनेन किञ्चित् अक्ष्णया कृतम् भवति तस्मात् एनम् सर्वस्मात् पुत्रः मुञ्चति तस्मात् पुत्रः नाम सः पुत्रेण एव अस्मिन् लोके प्रतितिष्ठति अथ एनम् एते देवाः प्राणाः अमृताः आविशन्ति
atha ataḥ samprattiḥ yadā praiṣyan manyate atha putram āha tvaṃ brahma tvaṃ yajñaḥ tvaṃ lokaḥ iti saḥ putraḥ pratyāha aham brahma aham yajñaḥ aham lokaḥ iti yad vai kiñca anūktam tasya sarvasya brahma iti ekatā ye vai ke ca yajñāḥ teṣām sarveṣām yajñaḥ iti ekatā ye vai ke ca lokāḥ teṣām sarveṣām lokaḥ iti ekatā etāvat vā idam sarvam etan mā sarvam sann ayam ito bhunajat iti tasmāt putram anuśiṣṭam lokyam āhuḥ tasmāt enam anuśāsati saḥ yadā evaṃvit asmāt lokāt praiti atha ebhiḥ eva prāṇaiḥ saha putram āviśati saḥ yadi anena kiñcit akṣṇayā kṛtam bhavati tasmāt enam sarvasmāt putraḥ muñcati tasmāt putraḥ nāma saḥ putreṇa eva asmin loke pratitiṣṭhati atha enam ete devāḥ prāṇāḥ amṛtāḥ āviśanti
Now, the handing over. Feeling his departure near, the father says to his son: "You are Brahman, you are the sacrifice, you are the world." The son answers: "I am Brahman, I am the sacrifice, I am the world." All that the father has learnt is one in the word "Brahman"; all his sacrifices are one in the word "sacrifice"; all his worlds are one in the word "world". "This is all there is; having become all this, let him uphold me from here," [the father thinks]. Therefore an instructed son is called "world-winning"; therefore they instruct him. When such a knowing father departs, he enters into his son together with these his breaths… and if anything has been done amiss by him, the son frees him from all of it; therefore he is called "son" (putra). Through the son the father goes on standing in this world, and into the father enter the divine immortal breaths.
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Sampratti, the rite of handing over, is one of the most moving scenes in the Veda: a dying father makes over to his son, in three words, everything he was: "you are Brahman (all that was learnt), you are the sacrifice (all that was performed), you are the world (all that was won)". And the son accepts three times: "I am Brahman, I am the sacrifice, I am the world." It is not property that is bequeathed but the man himself: his knowledge, his worship, his place in being; the heir receives the father as a vessel receives a liquid.
Hence too the Upaniṣad derives the word "son": putra is the one who "frees" his father from what was left undone and done amiss (tradition hears in it: he who saves from the hell "put"). A son is not the continuation of an estate but the redemption of a life: the father's debts are quenched in the son's service, the father's work "goes on standing in the world" through him. Parenthood here is a form of immortality and a form of penance at once.
So the steps of the previous verse are joined: the world of men is taken by a son, the world of the gods by knowledge — and a wise father takes both by one act, by an instructed son (anuśiṣṭa). Not merely a begotten son but a taught one is called lokya, "world-winning": true fatherhood is completed not by conception but by the handing on of truth.