The Mukhya Upaniṣads

Kauṣītaki · Adhyāya 2 · Kauṣītaki 2.1

Passage 15

अथातः पितापुत्रीयं सम्प्रदानमिति चाचक्षते ।पिता पुत्रं प्रेष्यन्नाह्वयति नवैस्तृणैरगारं संस्तीर्याग्निमुपसमाधायोदकुम्भं सपात्रमुपनिधायाहतेन वाससा सम्प्रच्छन्नः स्वयं श्येत एत्य पुत्र उपरिषटादभिनिपद्यते, इन्द्रियैरस्येन्द्रियाणि संस्पृश्यापि वास्याभिमुखत एवासीताथास्मै संप्रयच्छति वाचं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता वाचं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः प्राणं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता प्राणं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।चक्षुर्मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता चक्षुस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।श्रोत्रं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता श्रोत्रं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।मनो मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता मनस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।अन्नरसान्मे त्वयि दधानीति पितान्नरसांस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।कर्माणि मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता कर्माणि ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।सुखदुःखे मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता सुखदुःखे ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।आनन्दं रतिं प्रजातिं मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता आनन्दं रतिं प्रजातिं ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।इत्या मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता इत्या ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।धियो विज्ञातव्यं कामान्मे त्वयि दधानीति पिता धियो विज्ञातव्यं कामांस्ते मयि दध इति पुत्रः ।अथ दक्षिणावुत्प्राङुपनिष्क्रामति तं पितानुमन्त्रयते यशो ब्रह्मवर्चसमन्नाद्यं कीर्तिस्त्वा जुषतामित्यथेतरः सव्यमंसमन्ववेक्षते पाणिनान्तर्धाय वसनान्तेन वा प्रच्छाद्य स्वर्गांल्लोकान्कामानवाप्नुहीति स यद्यगदः स्यात्पुत्रस्यैश्वर्ये पिता वसेत्परि वा व्रजेद्यद्यु वै प्रेयाद्यदेवैनं समापयति तथा समापयितव्यो भवति तथा समापयितव्यो भवति ॥ १५ ॥

In plain words

Now the handing over from father to son, which they also call the transmission. When a father is about to depart, he calls his son. Having strewn the house with fresh grass, laid the fire, and set down a jar of water with a vessel, the father, covered over with a new garment, lies there; and the son, coming, lies down above him, touching his organs with his organs — or the father may sit facing him. Then he hands over to him. The father says, "Let me place my speech in thee." The son says, "I take thy speech into me." The father: "Let me place my breath in thee." The son: "I take thy breath into me." The father: "Let me place my eye in thee." The son: "I take thy eye into me." The father: "Let me place my ear in thee." The son: "I take thy ear into me." The father: "Let me place my mind in thee." The son: "I take thy mind into me." The father: "Let me place my savours of food in thee." The son: "I take thy savours of food into me." The father: "Let me place my actions in thee." The son: "I take thy actions into me." The father: "Let me place my pleasure and pain in thee." The son: "I take thy pleasure and pain into me." The father: "Let me place my delight and love and begetting in thee." The son: "I take thy delight and love and begetting into me." The father: "Let me place my movement in thee." The son: "I take thy movement into me." The father: "Let me place my thoughts, and what is to be known, and my desires in thee." The son: "I take thy thoughts, and what is to be known, and thy desires into me." Then the son goes out to the right and toward the east; and the father calls after him, "May glory and the lustre of Brahman and food to eat and fame delight in thee." Then the other looks back over his left shoulder, covering his face with his hand or screening it with the end of his garment, and says, "Attain thou the heavenly worlds and thy desires." If the father recovers, let him live under his son's lordship, or let him go forth as a wanderer. But if he departs, let them make his end as his end should be made — as his end should be made.