Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 3.7
Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka 3.7
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- Sanskrit
3.7
ŚĀ 3,7 = KU 1,7
yajūdaraḥ sāmaśirā asāv ṛṅmūrttir avyayaḥ | sa brahmeti vijñeya ṛṣir brahmamayo mahān || iti | tad āha - kena me pauṃsnāni nāmānyāpnoṣīti | prāṇeneti brūyāt | kena napuṃsakānīti | manaseti | kena strīnāmānīti | vāceti | kena gandhān iti | ghrāṇeneti | kena rūpāṇīti | cakṣuṣeti | kena śabdān iti | śrotreṇeti | kenānnarasān iti | jihvayeti | kena karmāṇīti | hastābhyām iti | kena sukhaduḥkhe iti | śarīreṇeti | kenānandaṃ ratiṃ prajātim iti | upastheneti | kenetyā iti | pādābhyām iti | kena dhiyo vijnātavyaṃ kāmān iti | prajñayaiveti brūyāt |
tam āha - āpo vai khalu me loko 'yaṃ te 'sāv iti | sā yā brahmaṇo jitir yā vyaṣṭiḥ, tāṃ jitiṃ jayati, tāṃ vyaṣṭiṃ vyaśnute ya evaṃ veda ya evaṃ veda ||
ŚĀ 3.7 = KU 1.7
‘The Yajus is his belly, the Sāman his head, this imperishable one whose form is the Ṛg. / He is to be known as Brahman, the great seer consisting of Brahman.’
He then says: ‘By what do you obtain my masculine names?’ He should reply: ‘By breath.’ ‘By what the neuter ones?’ ‘By the mind.’ ‘By what the feminine names?’ ‘By speech.’ ‘By what odours?’ ‘By the breath of smell.’ ‘By what forms?’ ‘By the eye.’ ‘By what sounds?’ ‘By the ear.’ ‘By what tastes of food?’ ‘By the tongue.’ ‘By what actions?’ ‘By the two hands.’ ‘By what pleasure and pain?’ ‘By the body.’ ‘By what bliss, delight, and procreation?’ ‘By the generative organ.’ ‘By what movements?’ ‘By the two feet.’ ‘By what thoughts, what is to be known, and desires?’ ‘By insight alone,’ he should reply.
He says to him: ‘The waters indeed are my world; that [world] is yours.’ Whatever victory is Brahman’s, whatever attainment, that victory he wins, that attainment he attains who knows thus, who knows thus.
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- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad — Sanskrit