The Honey

What Dadhyañc taught the Aśvins through the horse's head is told in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, one of the Upaniṣads, the teachings on the Self that close the Veda. It is called the honey teaching. This earth is honey for all beings, and all beings are honey for this earth; and the shining, immortal person in this earth, and the shining, immortal person in the body, is this Self; this is the immortal, this is Brahman, the one reality, this is all. So with the waters and fire, the wind and the sun, the quarters and the moon, lightning and thunder and space, dharma and truth and humankind, and the Self itself. This is the honey that Dadhyañc, the son of Atharvan, taught the Aśvins.

And seeing it, the seer said of the Self, which made all bodies and dwells in them: He made bodies with two feet; he made bodies with four feet. Becoming a bird, he entered the bodies as the person. And this person lies in all bodies; there is nothing not covered by him, nothing not enclosed by him. And the seer said again of the same Self, calling it Indra, the lord: He took the likeness of every form, so that he might be seen. Indra goes about in many forms by his powers, for a thousand horses are yoked to him. And he is the horses; he is ten and thousands, many and endless. This is Brahman, without before and without after, without inside and without outside. This Self, which experiences all, is Brahman. That is the teaching.