Aitareya Upanishad 1.3.11
Aitareyopaniṣad 1.3.11
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.3.11
sa īkṣata kathaṃ nv idaṃ mad ṛte syād iti.
sa īkṣata katareṇa prapadyā iti.
sa īkṣata yadi vācābhivyāhṛtaṃ yadi prāṇenābhiprāṇitaṃ yadi cakṣuṣā dṛṣṭaṃ yadi śrotreṇa śrutaṃ yadi tvacā spṛṣṭaṃ yadi manasā dhyātaṃ yady apānenābhyapānitaṃ yadi śiśnena visṛṣṭam atha ko 'ham iti.
He thought, "How indeed can it be there without Me?" He thought, "Through which of the two ways should I enter?" He thought, "If utterance is done by the organ of speech, smelling by the sense of smell, seeing by the eye, hearing by the ear, feeling by the sense of touch, thinking by the mind, the act of drawing in (or pressing down) by Apāna, ejecting by the procreative organ, then who (or what) am I ?"
Translations (4)
- Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English
- The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Aitareya-āraṇyaka — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
Commentaries (7)
- Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Aitareyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Aitareyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Aitareyopaniṣadvivaraṇa — Upaniṣadbrahmendrayogin, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyātīrtha — Vidyātīrtha, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
- Aitareya-Upaniṣad (ed. Mislav Ježić) — Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English