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Updated: May 25, 2025
The objects of the senses, of the same as those in verse 3, are the fuel, previously described as Havi or libations, which are to be burnt off by being cast into the fires. The Hridaya or heart is the Garhapatya fire. From it is produced another fire, the Ahavaniya, viz., the mind. 'The heart was pierced.
Sound and touch, colour and taste, scent, speech, action, motion, and the discharge of vital seed, of urine and of excreta, are the ten libations. The libations, O beautiful one, are ten. What remains is the pure, highest knowledge. All objects of knowledge are Mind. The bearer of the body is the Garhapatya fire. From that is produced another. Mind is the Ahavaniya fire.
The case is analogous to that of texts such as 'the ladle is this earth, the ahavaniya is the heavenly world, which are merely meant to glorify the ladle and the rest as constituent members of the sacrifice.
From the heart arose mind, for the mind arose Chandramas, is the declaration of the Sruti cited by Nilakantha. The Ahavaniya fire or mind is the mouth. Asyam ahavaniya is the Sruti. Annamayam hi Somya manas, apomayah pranah, tejomayi vak is the Sruti that bears upon this. Food or fire, poured into the mouth develops into speech or word. Vachaspati implies the Veda or word.
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