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Pranava

    Having taken as a bow the great weapon of the Secret Teaching,
    One should fix in it the arrow sharpened by constant Meditation.
    Drawing it with a mind filled with That (Brahman)
    Penetrate, O bright youth, that Immutable Mark.

    The pranava (AUM) is the bow; the arrow is the self;
    Brahman is said to be the mark.
    With heedfulness It is to be penetrated;
    Become one with It as the arrow in the mark.

    Know that Self alone, the One without a Second,
    On which are strung Heaven and Earth,
    Inner Space, Mind, Vital Energy, All the organs.
    Leave off other words, for this is the Bridge to Immortality.

    Mundaka Upanishad