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Plain text of Fourth Prapathaka · Seventh Khanda

4.7.1 "A swan will tell you a quarter."

He then, when it was the morrow, drove the cows on. Where they came at evening, there he lit a fire, penned in the cows, laid on the fuel, and sat down to the west of the fire, facing the east.

4.7.2 A swan flew down to him, and spoke to him, saying: "Satyakama!"

"Sir!" he replied.

4.7.3 "Let me tell you, my dear, a quarter of God's signs."

"Tell me, Sir."

To him it then said: "One sixteenth is fire. One sixteenth is the sun. One sixteenth is the moon. One sixteenth is lightning.

This, verily, my dear, is a quarter of God's signs, consisting of four sixteenths, named the Luminous.

4.7.4 He who, knowing it thus, reflects upon a quarter of God's signs, consisting of four sixteenths, as the Luminous, becomes luminous in this world. Then he wins luminous worlds who, knowing it thus, reflects upon this quarter as the Luminous."