Aitareya Āraṇyaka 2.3.3
Aitareyāraṇyaka 2.3.3
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- Sanskrit
2.3.3
sa eṣa puruṣaḥ samudraḥ sarvaṃ lokam iti \
yad dha kiñ cāśnute, 'ty enaṃ manyate.
yady antarikṣalokam aśnute, 'ty enaṃ manyate.
yady amuṃ lokam aśnuvī/tāty evainaṃ manyeta \
sa eṣa puruṣaḥ pañcavidhas.
tasya yad uṣṇaṃ, taj jyo/tir.
yāni khāni, sa ākāśo.
'tha yal lohitaṃ śleṣmā retas, tā āpo.
yac charīraṃ, sā pṛthivī.
yaḥ prāṇaḥ, sa vāyuḥ \
sa eṣa vāyuḥ pañcavidhaḥ, prāṇo 'pāno vyāna udānaḥ samānaḥ \
tā etā devatāḥ prāṇāpānayor eva niviṣṭāś, cakṣuḥ śrotraṃ mano vā/g iti.
prāṇasya hy anv apāyam etā apiyanti \
sa eṣa vācaś ci/ttasyottarottarikramo, yad yajñaḥ \
sa eṣa yajñaḥ pañcavidho, 'gnihotraṃ darśapūrṇamāsau cāturmāsyāni paśuḥ somaḥ \
sa eṣa yajñānāṃ saṃpannatamo, yat soma.
etasmin hy etāḥ pañcavidhā adhigamyante.
yat prā/k savanebhyaḥ, saikā vidhā .
trīṇi savanāni.
yad ūrdhvaṃ, sā pañcamī \\ 3 \\
That man (conceived as uktha) is the sea, rising beyond the whole world. Whatever he reaches, he wishes to go beyond. If he reaches the sky, he wishes to go beyond.
If he should reach that (heavenly) world, he would wish to go beyond.
That man is fivefold. The heat in him is fire; the apertures (of the senses) are ether; blood, mucus, and seed are water; the body is earth; breath is air.
That air is fivefold, viz. up-breathing, down-breathing, back-breathing, out-breathing, on-breathing. The other powers (devatâs), viz. sight, hearing, mind, and speech, are comprised under up-breathing and down-breathing. For when breath departs, they also depart with it.
That man (conceived as uktha) is the sacrifice, which is a succession now of speech and now of thought. That sacrifice is fivefold, viz. the Agnihotra, the new and full moon sacrifices, the four-monthly sacrifices, the animal sacrifice, the Soma sacrifice. The Soma sacrifice is the most perfect of sacrifices, for in it these five kinds of ceremonies are seen: the first which precedes the libations (the Dîkshâ, &c.), then three libations, and what follows (the Avabhritha, &c.) is the fifth.
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
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- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Indian Philosophy — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- The Religions of India — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English
- Bahvṛcāraṇyabhāṣya — Sanskrit
- Daśopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Mahaitareya — Sanskrit
- Aitareyāraṇyaka (Aitareya Mahīdāsa) — Aitareya Mahīdāsa, Sanskrit
- Dvitīyāraṇyaka — Sanskrit