हिन्दी
Then the Shaivya Satyakama asked him: “Lord, he among men that meditate unto death on OUM the syllable, which of the worlds do he conquer by its puissance?”
To him answered the Rishi Pippalada:
This imperishable Word that is OUM, O Satyakama, is the Higher Brahman and also the Lower.
Therefore, the wise man by making his home in the Word, wins to one of these.
If he meditates on the one letter of OUM the syllable, by that enlightenment, he attains swiftly in the material universe, and the hymns of the Rigveda escort him to the world of men.
There he feels the glory of penance, devotion and celibacy.
Now if by the two letters of the syllable, he in the mind attains to the skies he is exalted, and the hymns of the Yajur Veda escorts him to the Lunar World.
In the heavens of the Moon, he feels his soul's majesty.
Then once more he returns.
But he who by all the three letters meditates by this syllable, even by OUM on the Most High Being, he in the Solar World of light and energy is secured in his attaining's; as a snake cast off its slough, so he castes off sin, and the hymns of the Samaveda escort him to the heaven of the Spirit.
He from that Lower who is the density of existence beholds the Higher than the Highest of whom every form is one city (Dham).
Whereof these are the verses.
These Matras, interconnected and inseparable, when used as the three Matras are Mrityumati, the child-form of death; But the wise man is not shaken by this; Reason, there are three types of actions, external action, internal action and the combined action of both, and he fearlessly performs these three actions with an undisturbed, undisturbed spirit.
To the earth The Rigveda leads, to the skies The Yajur Veda, but the Sama Veda to That of which the sages know.
The wise man by resting on OUM the syllable also attains that 'Supreme Peace' where age is not, and fear is cast out by immortality.
