Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ("Great Forest Teaching") 2.5.19
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 2.5.19
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.5.19
idaṃ vai tanmadhu dadhyaṅṅātharvaṇo'śvibhyāmuvāca tadetadṛṣiḥ paśyannavocadrūpam̐ rūpaṃpratirūpo babhūva tadasya rūpaṃ praticakṣaṇāya | indro māyābhiḥ pururūpa īyateyuktā hyasya harayaḥ śatā daśeti | ayaṃ vai harayo'yaṃ vai daśa ca sahasrāṇi bahūni cānantāni ca tadetadbrahmāpūrvamanaparamanantaramabāhyamayamātmā brahma sarvānubhūrityanuśāsanam
Verily Dadhyak Âtharvana proclaimed this honey to the two Asvins, and a Rishi, seeing this, said (Rv. VI, 47, 18):
'He (the Lord) became like unto every form, and this is meant to reveal the (true) form of him (the Âtman). Indra (the Lord) appears multiform through the Mâyâs (appearances), for his horses (senses) are yoked, hundreds and ten.'
This (Âtman) is the horses, this (Âtman) is the ten, and the thousands, many and endless. This is the Brahman, without cause and without effect, without anything inside or outside; this Self is Brahman, omnipresent and omniscient. This is the teaching (of the Upanishads).
2.5.19.p1
itidvitīyādhyāye pañcamaṃ brāhmaṇam
Translations (1)
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (7)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
Linked texts (10)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, 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
- The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin — E. W. Hopkins, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- The History of Indian Literature — Albrecht Weber, English
- A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy — R. D. Ranade, English