Aitareya Āraṇyaka 2.1.5
Aitareyāraṇyaka 2.1.5
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2.1.5
taṃ devāḥ prāṇayanta.
sa praṇītaḥ prātāyata.
prātāyītī3ṁ, tat prātar abhavat.
samāgād itī3ṁ, tat sāyam abhavad.
ahar eva prāṇo, rātrir a/pānaḥ \
vāg agniś.
cakṣur asāv ādityaś.
candramā mano.
diśaḥ śrotraṃ.
sa eṣa prahitāṃ saṃyogo.
'dhyātmam imā devatā.
ada u āvir adhidaivata/m.
ity etat tad uktaṃ bhavati \
etad dha sma vai tad vidvān āha hiraṇyadan vaido.
na tasyeśe, yan mahyaṃ na dadyur iti.
prahitāṃ vā aham adhyātmaṃ saṃyogaṃ niviṣṭaṃ veda-.
-etad dha tat \
anīśānāni ha vā asmai bhūtāni baliṃ haranti, ya evaṃ veda \
tat satyaṃ.
sad iti prāṇas.
tīty annaṃ.
yam ity asā/v ādityas.
tad etat trivṛt.
trivṛd iva vai cakṣuḥ, śuklaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ kanīniketi \
sa yadi ha vā api mṛṣā vadati, satyaṃ haivāsyoditaṃ bhavati, ya evam etat satyasya satyatvaṃ veda \\ 5 \\
Then the Devas carried him (the breath) forth, and being carried forth, he was stretched out, and when people said, 'He was stretched out,' then it was in the morning; when they said, 'He is gone to rest,' then it was in the evening. Day, therefore, is the breathing up, night the breathing down.
Speech is Agni, sight that Âditya (sun), mind the moon, hearing the Dis (quarters): this is the prahitâm samyoga, the union of the deities as sent forth. These deities (Agni, &c.) are thus in the body, but their (phenomenal) appearance yonder is among the deities--this was intended.
And Hiranyadat Vaida also, who knew this (and who by his knowledge had become Hiranyagarbha or the universal spirit), said: 'Whatever they do not give to me, they do not possess themselves.' I know the prahitâm samyoga, the union of the deities, as entered into the body. This is it.
To him who knows this all creatures, without being constrained, offer gifts.
That breath is (to be called) sattya (the true), for sat is breath, ti is food, yam is the sun. This is threefold, and threefold the eye also may be called, it being white, dark, and the pupil. He who knows why true is true (why sattya is sattya), even if he should speak falsely, yet what he says is true.
Translations (1)
- The Aitareya-âranyaka (The Upanishads, Part I, SBE 1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
Commentaries (4)
- Aitareyāraṇyakabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa — Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa — Sāyaṇa Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa — Sāyaṇācārya alias Mādhava, Sanskrit
Linked texts (7)
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Bahvṛcāraṇyabhāṣya — Sanskrit
- Daśopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Mahaitareya — Sanskrit
- Aitareyāraṇyaka (Aitareya Mahīdāsa) — Aitareya Mahīdāsa, Sanskrit
- Dvitīyāraṇyaka — Sanskrit