Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ("Great Forest Teaching") 2.4.14
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 2.4.14
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.4.14
yatrahi dvaitamiva bhavati taditara itaraṃ jighrati taditara itaraṃ paśyati taditara itaram̐ śṛṇoti taditara itaramabhivadati taditara itaraṃ manute taditara itaraṃ vijānāti yatra vā asya sarvamātmaivābhūttatkena kaṃ jighrettatkena kaṃ paśyettatkena kam̐ śṛṇuyāttatkena kamabhivadettat kena kaṃ manvīta tatkenana kaṃ vijānīyādyenedam̐ sarvaṃ vijānāti taṃ kena vijānīyādvijñātāramare kena vijānīyāditi
Then Maitreyî said: 'Here thou hast bewildered me, Sir, when thou sayest that having departed, there is no more knowledge.'
But Yâgñavalkya replied: 'O Maitreyî, I say nothing that is bewildering. This is enough, O beloved, for wisdom.
'For when there is as it were duality, then one sees the other, one smells the other, one hears the other, one salutes the other, one perceives the other, one knows the other; but when the Self only is all this, how should he smell another, how should he see another, how should he hear another, how should he salute another, how should he perceive another, how should he know another? How should he know Him by whom he knows all this? How, O beloved, should he know (himself), the Knower?'
2.4.14.p1
iti dvitīyādhyāye caturthaṃ brāhmaṇam
Then Maitreyî said: 'Here thou hast bewildered me, Sir, when thou sayest that having departed, there is no more knowledge.'
But Yâgñavalkya replied: 'O Maitreyî, I say nothing that is bewildering. This is enough, O beloved, for wisdom.
'For when there is as it were duality, then one sees the other, one smells the other, one hears the other, one salutes the other, one perceives the other, one knows the other; but when the Self only is all this, how should he smell another, how should he see another, how should he hear another, how should he salute another, how should he perceive another, how should he know another? How should he know Him by whom he knows all this? How, O beloved, should he know (himself), the Knower?'
Translations (1)
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (7)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
Linked texts (10)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Indian Philosophy — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Studies in the Origins of Buddhism — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge — K. N. Jayatilleke, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary — Paul Deussen & Charles Johnston, English
- A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy — R. D. Ranade, English
- Outlines of Indian Philosophy — M. Hiriyanna, English
- The Sāṃkhya System: A History of the Sāṃkhya Philosophy — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English