अथ एषः श्लोकः भवति यतः च उदेति सूर्यः अस्तं यत्र च गच्छति इति प्राणात् वै एषः उदेति प्राणे अस्तम् एति तम् देवाः चक्रिरे धर्मम् सः एव अद्य सः उ श्वः इति यद् वा एते अमुर्हि अध्रियन्त तद् एव अपि अद्य कुर्वन्ति तस्मात् एकम् एव व्रतम् चरेत् प्राण्यात् च एव अपान्यात् च नेन् मा पाप्मा मृत्युः आप्नवत् इति यदि उ चरेत् समापिपयिषेत् तेन उ एतस्यै देवतायै सायुज्यम् सलोकताम् जयति
atha eṣaḥ ślokaḥ bhavati yataḥ ca udeti sūryaḥ astaṃ yatra ca gacchati iti prāṇāt vai eṣaḥ udeti prāṇe astam eti tam devāḥ cakrire dharmam saḥ eva adya saḥ u śvaḥ iti yad vā ete amurhi adhriyanta tad eva api adya kurvanti tasmāt ekam eva vratam caret prāṇyāt ca eva apānyāt ca nen mā pāpmā mṛtyuḥ āpnavat iti yadi u caret samāpipayiṣet tena u etasyai devatāyai sāyujyam salokatām jayati
On this there is a verse: "Whence does the sun rise, and where does it set?" — from the breath it rises and into the breath it sets. The gods made this the dharma: it is the same today and the same tomorrow — what they laid down then they observe even now. Therefore let a man keep one vow alone: let him breathe in and breathe out [with the thought] "let not the evil of death reach me"; and if he keeps it, let him carry it through to the end. By this he wins union with that deity and dwelling in the same world with it.
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The end of the inquiry into the vow — and it fits into a single commandment: ekam eva vrataṁ caret, "keep one vow": to breathe. Inbreath and outbreath with the remembrance "let not the evil of death reach me" — that is the whole asceticism the Upaniṣad sets above all others: a vow one cannot forget to keep, a fast that will not be broken off, a service without vacations, on the pattern of the Unwearying to whom it is offered.
Even the sun, says the verse, rises from the breath and sets into it: the cosmos is held by that same sleepless rhythm, and "the gods made this the dharma — the same today and tomorrow". Constancy is the very signature of the divine order; a spiritual life arranged by this dharma is as simple as breathing and as unrepealable.
The tradition of bhakti has kept the commandment literally: to join the Lord's name to the breath, so that the japa goes as breathing goes — the "one vow" of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, become the practice of millions. And the reward named is the former, the highest: sāyujya and salokatā — union with the Deity and life in the same world with Him. So the fifth brāhmaṇa ends: from the seven foods of the Father to the one breath of remembrance.