Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.3
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 1.4.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.4.3
sa vai naiva reme tasmādekākī na ramate sa dvitīyamaicchat | sahaitāvānāsa yathā strīpumām̐sau saṃpariṣvaktau sa imamevātmānaṃ dvedhāpātayattataḥ patiśca patnī cābhavatāṃ tasmādidamardhabṛgalamiva sva iti ha smāha yājñavalkyastasmādayamākāśaḥ striyā pūryata eva tām̐ samabhavattato manuṣyā ajāyanta
He was not at all happy. Therefore people (still) are not happy when alone. He desired a mate. He became as big as man and wife embracing each other. He parted this body into two. From that came husband and wife. Therefore, said Yâjñavalkya, this (body) is one-half of oneself, like one of the two halves of a split pea. Therefore this space is indeed filled by the wife. He was united with her. From that men were born.
Translations (3)
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
Commentaries (10)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Discussed in (6)
- Indian Philosophy — Radhakrishnan 1923, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs — Briggs 1938, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English
- Vaiṣṇavism, Śaivism and Minor Religious Systems — Bhandarkar 1913, English
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Coomaraswamy 1942, English