The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max Müller, , at sacred-
texts.com 1. Next let a man meditate on the sevenfold Sâman
which is uniform in itself 1 and leads beyond death. The word
hiṅkâra has three syllables, the word prastâva has three
syllables: that is equal (sama). 2. The word âdi (first, Om) has
two syllables, the word pratihâra has four syllables. Taking one
syllable from that over, that is equal (sama). 3. The word
udgîtha has three syllables, the word upadrava has four
syllables. With three and three syllables it should be equal.
One syllable being left over, it becomes trisyllabic. Hence it
is equal. 4. The word nidhana has three syllables, therefore it
is equal. These make twenty-two syllables. 5. With twenty-one
syllables a man reaches the sun (and death), for the sun is the
twenty-first 2 from here; with the twenty-second he conquers
what is beyond the sun: that is blessedness, that is freedom
from grief 6. He obtains here the victory over the sun (death),
and there is a higher victory than the v