ओं पृथिवी वान्नमापोऽन्नादा आपो वान्नं ज्योतिरन्नादं ज्योतिर्वान्नं वायुरन्नादो वायुर्वान्नमाकाशोऽन्नाद आकाशो वान्नमिन्द्रियाण्यन्नादानीन्द्रियाणि वान्नं मनोऽन्नादं मनो वान्नं बुद्धिरन्नादा बुद्धिर्वान्नमव्यक्तमन्नादमव्यक्तं वान्नमक्षरमन्नादमक्षरं वान्नं मृत्युरन्नादो मृत्युर्वै परे देव एकीभवतीति परस्तान्न सन्नासन्न सदसदित्येतन्निर्वाणानुशासनमिति वेदानुशासनमिति वेदानुशासनम्
oṃ pṛthivī vānnamāpo'nnādā āpo vānnaṃ jyotirannādaṃ jyotirvānnaṃ vāyurannādo vāyurvānnamākāśo'nnāda ākāśo vānnamindriyāṇyannādānīndriyāṇi vānnaṃ mano'nnādaṃ mano vānnaṃ buddhirannādā buddhirvānnamavyaktamannādamavyaktaṃ vānnamakṣaramannādamakṣaraṃ vānnaṃ mṛtyurannādo mṛtyurvai pare deva ekībhavatīti parastānna sannāsanna sadasadityetannirvāṇānuśāsanamiti vedānuśāsanamiti vedānuśāsanam
Oṁ. The earth is food, and the waters are the eater; the waters are food, and light is the eater; light is food, and wind is the eater; wind is food, and space is the eater; space is food, and the senses are the eaters; the senses are food, and the mind is the eater; the mind is food, and reason is the eater; reason is food, and the unmanifest is the eater; the unmanifest is food, and the imperishable is the eater; the imperishable is food, and death is the eater. And death becomes one in the Highest God; beyond that — neither the existent, nor the non-existent, nor the existent-and-non-existent. Such is the teaching of nirvāṇa, such is the teaching of the Veda, such is the teaching of the Veda.
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The whole ladder of the universe is taken here through one pair of notions: anna and annāda — “food” and “eater”.
The chain goes from below upward, and every link twice: what was the eater proves, at the next step, to be food. The earth is food of the waters; the waters are food of light; light of wind; wind of space; space of the senses; the senses of the mind; the mind of reason; reason of the unmanifest; the unmanifest of the imperishable; the imperishable of death.
This is the shortest description of the world this book gives. Everything that exists is eaten by someone; and everyone who eats will himself be eaten by the one above.
The image is not invented: it is taken from observation and is constant in the Upaniṣads. In the Kauṣītaki one asked the moon: “make me an eater of food”, and we said then that the request means — not to be eaten. Here it is shown why the request is hopeless if taken literally: for every eater there is a next one.
The chain is closed by death — the one who eats last. Not one of the steps can eat her.
And then — the same line as in the two neighbouring khaṇḍas: “and death becomes one in the Highest God”. The eater of all eaters is eaten by no one; she simply ceases to be separate.
So the only way out of the chain of devouring is pointed not in becoming the strongest eater, but in coming to where this relation itself ends. The third khaṇḍa said the same of Him more briefly: “it eats nothing, and nothing eats it”.