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'Bodiless is the wind; cloud, lightning, and thunder are bodiless too. Just as these rise up from yonder space, reach the highest light, and appear each in its own form,'
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Chandogya Upanishad 8.12.2

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Chandogya Upanishad
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ChU.8.12.2
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