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The meditation has to proceed in the same manner as specified. First meditation to be on अधिलोकम्, the gross surrounding of the pupil. Next to be on अधिज्यौतिषम्, light that illuminates the gross. Third meditation is on अधिविद्यम्, knowledge, light of all lights. The fourth is about अधिप्रजम्, the progeny or the living world and the fifth is about अध्यात्मम्, one's own self. Meditation begins with the most gross to the most subtle - the consciousness.<ref name=":3" />  

The meditation has to proceed in the same manner as specified. First meditation to be on अधिलोकम्, the gross surrounding of the pupil. Next to be on अधिज्यौतिषम्, light that illuminates the gross. Third meditation is on अधिविद्यम्, knowledge, light of all lights. The fourth is about अधिप्रजम्, the progeny or the living world and the fifth is about अध्यात्मम्, one's own self. Meditation begins with the most gross to the most subtle - the consciousness.<ref name=":3" />  

    

    

The third anuvaka of ''Shiksha Valli'' asserts that everything in the universe is connected. In its theory of "connecting links", it states that letters are joined to form words and words are joined to express ideas, just like earth and heavens are forms causally joined by space through the medium of ''Vayu'' (air), and just like the fire and the sun are forms causally connected through lightning with the medium of clouds. It asserts that it is knowledge that connects the teacher and the student through the medium of exposition, while the child is the connecting link between the father and the mother through the medium of procreation.<ref name="pauldeussentu112">Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814684, pages 222-223</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/AitareyataittiriyaUpanishadsWithShankaraBhashya-English/05AitareyataittiriyaUpanishadsWithShankaraBhashya-English#page/n61/mode/2up Taittiriya Upanishad] SS Sastri (Translator), The Aitereya and Taittiriya Upanishad, pages 65-67</ref>  

The third anuvaka of ''Shiksha Valli'' asserts that everything in the universe is connected. In its theory of "connecting links", it states that letters are joined to form words and words are joined to express ideas, just like earth and heavens are forms causally joined by space through the medium of ''Vayu'' (air), and just like the fire and the sun are forms causally connected through lightning with the medium of clouds. It asserts that it is knowledge that connects the teacher and the student through the medium of exposition, while the child is the connecting link between the father and the mother through the medium of procreation.<ref name="pauldeussentu112">Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814684, pages 222-223</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/AitareyataittiriyaUpanishadsWithShankaraBhashya-English/05AitareyataittiriyaUpanishadsWithShankaraBhashya-English#page/n61/mode/2up Taittiriya Upanishad] SS Sastri (Translator), The Aitereya and Taittiriya Upanishad, pages 65-67</ref>

 

Third Anuvaka explains a continuous cycle of immortality. As the teacher passes his wisdom to the pupil, the Acharya survives beyond death in the form of his own pupil. Similarly when a child is born, the parents continue to live in the form of child even after their own death. Similarly when words of wisdom are passed (in the oral tradition) the upper and lower lip constitute the parental pair, yielding the full fledged word, through the instrumentality of tongue, there is a continuity and hence immortality of this sacred knowledge.<ref name=":0" />  

====A teacher's prayer - Fourth Anuvāka====

====A teacher's prayer - Fourth Anuvāka====