Section VII - Meditation on Brahman as Lightning

Verse 5.7.1:

विद्युद् ब्रह्मेत्याहुः; विदानाद्विद्युत्; विद्यत्येनं पाप्मनो य एवं वेद विद्युद्ब्रह्मेति; विद्युद्ध्येव ब्रह्म ॥ २ ॥
इति सप्तमं ब्राह्मणम् ॥

vidyud brahmetyāhuḥ; vidānādvidyut; vidyatyenaṃ pāpmano ya evaṃ veda vidyudbrahmeti; vidyuddhyeva brahma || 1 ||
iti saptamaṃ brāhmaṇam ||

1. They say lightning is Brahman. It is called lightning (Vidyut) because it scatters (darkness). He who knows it as such—that lightning is Brahman—scatters evils (that are ranged against) him, for lightning is indeed Brahman.

Another meditation on the same Satya-Brahman, with particular result, is being introduced. They say lightning is Brahman. The derivation of lightning as Brahman is being given: It is called lightning (Vidyut) because it scatters darkness. Really lightning flashes cleaving the darkness due to clouds. He mho knows it as such, knows that lightning is Brahman as possessed of the above attributes, scatters or dispels all the evils that are ranged against him. It is a fitting result for one who knows it as such—that lightning is Brahman, for lightning is indeed Brahman.