Aitareya-upanishad (Aitareya-aranyaka II, 4-6), Adhyaya 4

4.1.1Adoration to the Highest Self. Hari, Om! Verily, in the beginning all this was Self, one only; there was nothing else blinking whatsoever.

4.1.2He thought: 'Shall I send forth worlds?' (1) He sent forth these worlds,

4.1.3Ambhas (water), Mariki (light), Mara (mortal), and Ap (water).

4.1.4That Ambhas (water) is above the heaven, and it is heaven, the support. The Marikis (the lights) are the sky. The Mara (mortal) is the earth, and the waters under the earth are the Ap world. (2)

4.1.5He thought: 'There are these worlds; shall I send forth guardians of the worlds?' He then formed the Purusha (the person), taking him forth from the water. (3)

4.1.6He brooded on him, and when that person had thus been brooded on, a mouth burst forth like an egg. From the mouth proceeded speech, from speech Agni (fire). Nostrils burst forth. From the nostrils proceeded scent (prana), from scent Vayu (air). Eyes burst forth. From the eyes proceeded sight, from sight Aditya (sun). Ears burst forth. From the ears proceeded hearing, from hearing the Dis (quarters of the world), Skin burst forth. From the skin proceeded hairs (sense of touch), from the hairs shrubs and trees. The heart burst forth. From the heart proceeded mind, from mind Kandramas (moon). The navel burst forth. From the navel proceeded the Apana (the down-breathing), from Apana death. The generative organ burst forth. From the organ proceeded seed, from seed water. (4)

4.2.1Those deities (devata), Agni and the rest, after they had been sent forth, fell into this great ocean. Then he (the Self) besieged him, (the person) with hunger and thirst.

4.2.2The deities then (tormented by hunger and thirst) spoke to him (the Self): 'Allow us a place in which we may rest and eat food.' (1) He led a cow towards them (the deities). They said: 'This is not enough.' He led a horse towards them. They said: 'This is not enough.' (2) He led man towards them. Then they said: 'Well done, indeed.' Therefore man is well done.

4.2.3He said to them: 'Enter, each according to his place.' (3)

4.2.4Then Agni (fire), having become speech, entered the mouth. Vayu (air), having become scent, entered the nostrils. Aditya (sun), having become sight, entered the eyes. The Dis (regions), having become hearing, entered the ears. The shrubs and trees, having become hairs, entered the skin. Kandramas (the moon), having become mind, entered the heart. Death, having become down-breathing, entered the navel. The waters, having become seed, entered the generative organ. (4)

4.2.5Then Hunger and Thirst spoke to him (the Self): 'Allow us two (a place).' He said to them: 'I assign you to those very deities there, I make you co-partners with them.' Therefore to whatever deity an oblation is offered, hunger and thirst are co-partners in it. (5)

4.3.1He thought: 'There are these worlds and the guardians of the worlds. Let me send forth food for them.' (1) He brooded over the water. From the water thus brooded on, matter (murti) was born. And that matter which was born, that verily was food. (2)

4.3.2When this food (the object matter) had thus been sent forth, it wished to flee, crying and turning away. He (the subject) tried to grasp it by speech. He could not grasp it by speech. If he had grasped it by speech, man would be satisfied by naming food. (3) He tried to grasp it by scent (breath). He could not grasp it by scent. If he had grasped it by scent, man would be satisfied by smelling food. (4) He tried to grasp it by the eye. He could not grasp it by the eye. If he had grasped it by the eye, man would be satisfied by seeing food. (5) He tried to grasp it by the ear. He could not grasp it by the ear. If he had grasped it by the ear, man would be satisfied by hearing food. (6) He tried to grasp it by the skin. He could not grasp it by the skin. If he had grasped it by the skin, man would be satisfied by touching food. (7) He tried to grasp it by the mind. He could not grasp it by the mind. If he had grasped it by the mind, man would be satisfied by thinking food. (8) He tried to grasp it by the generative organ. He could not grasp it by the organ. If he had grasped it by the organ, man would be satisfied by sending forth food. (9) He tried to grasp it by the down-breathing (the breath which helps to swallow food through the mouth and to carry it off through the rectum, the payvindriya). He got it.

4.3.3Thus it is Vayu (the getter) who lays hold of food, and the Vayu is verily Annayu (he who gives life or who lives by food). (10)

4.3.4He thought: 'How can all this be without me?'

4.3.5And then he thought: 'By what way shall I get there?'

4.3.6And then he thought: 'If speech names, if scent smells, if the eye sees, if the ear hears, if the skin feels, if the mind thinks, if the off-breathing digests, if the organ sends forth, then what am I?' (11)

4.3.7Then opening the suture of the skull, he got in by that door.

4.3.8That door is called the Vidriti (tearing asunder), the Nandana (the place of bliss).

4.3.9There are three dwelling-places for him, three dreams; this dwelling-place (the eye), this dwelling-place (the throat), this dwelling-place (the heart). (12)

4.3.10When born (when the Highest Self had entered the body) he looked through all things, in order to see whether anything wished to proclaim here another (Self). He saw this person only (himself) as the widely spread Brahman. 'I saw it,' thus he said; (13) Therefore he was Idam-dra (seeing this).

4.3.11Being Idamdra by name, they call him Indra mysteriously. For the Devas love mystery, yea, they love mystery. (14)