SECOND PRAPÂTHAKA.
First Khanda.
1. Meditation on the whole[1] of the Sâman is good, and people, when anything is good, say it is Sâman; when it is not good, it is not Sâman.
2. Thus they also say, he approached him with Sâman, i.e. becomingly; and he approached him without Sâman, i. e. unbecomingly.
3. And they also say, truly this is Sâman for us, i.e. it is good for us, when it is good; and truly that is not Sâman for us, i. e. it is not good for us, when it is not good.
4. If any one knowing this meditates on the Sâman as good, depend upon it all good qualities will approach quickly, aye, they will become his own[2].
Second Khanda.
1. Let a man meditate on the fivefold Sâman[3] as the five worlds. The hinkâra is the earth, the prastâva the fire, the udgîtha the sky, the pratihâra the sun, the nidhana heaven; so in an ascending line.
2. In a descending line, the hinkâra is heaven,
- ↑ Hitherto meditation on certain portions only of the Sâma-veda and the Sâma-sacrifice had been enjoined, and their deeper meaning explained. Now the same is done for the whole of the Sâman.
- ↑ Cf. Kh. Up. III, 19, 4.
- ↑ The five forms in which the Sâman is used for sacrificial purposes. The Sâman is always to be understood as the Good, as Dharma, and as Brahman.
