Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ("Great Forest Teaching") 4.2
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.2
- Language
- Sanskrit
Contents
- 4.2.4 — 1 part
4.2.1
— janako ha vaidehaḥ kūrcādupāvasarpannuvāca namaste'stu yājñavalkyānu māśādhīti sa hovāca yathā vai samrāṇmahāntamadhvānameṣyanrathaṃ vā nāvaṃ vā samādadītaivamevaitābhirupaniṣadbhiḥ samāhitātmāsyevaṃ vṛndāraka āḍhyaḥ sannadhītaveda uktopaniṣatka ito vimucyamānaḥ kva gamiṣyasīti nāhaṃ tadbhagavanveda yatra gamiṣyāmītyatha vai te'haṃ tadvakṣyāmi yatra gamiṣyasīti bravītu bhagavāniti
Ganaka Vaideha, descending from his throne, said: 'I bow to you, O Yâgñavalkya, teach me.'
Yâgñavalkya said: 'Your Majesty, as a man who wishes to make a long journey, would furnish himself with a chariot or a ship, thus is your mind well furnished by these Upanishads. You are honourable, and wealthy, you have learnt the Vedas and been told the Upanishads. Whither then will you go when departing hence?'
Ganaka Vaideha said: 'Sir, I do not know whither I shall go.'
Yâgñavalkya said: 'Then I shall tell you this, whither you will go.'
Ganaka Vaideha said: 'Tell it, Sir.'
4.2.2
indho ha vai nāmaiṣa yo'yaṃ dakṣiṇe'kṣanpuruṣastaṃ vā etamindham̐ santamindra ityācakṣate parokṣeṇaiva parokṣapriyā iva hi devāḥ pratyakṣadviṣaḥ
Yâgñavalkya said: 'That person who is in the right eye, he is called Indha, and him who is Indha they call indeed Indra mysteriously, for the gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident.
4.2.3
athaitadvāme'kṣaṇi puruṣarūpameṣāsya patnī virāṭtayoreṣa sam̐stāvo ya eṣo'ntarhṛdaya ākāśo'thainayoretadannaṃ ya eṣo'ntarhṛdaye lohitapiṇdo'thainayoretatprāvaraṇāṃ yadetadantarhṛdaye jālakamivāthainayoreṣā sṛtiḥ saṃcaraṇī yaiṣā hṛdayādūrdhvā nāḍyu-ccarati yathā keśaḥ sahasradhā bhinna evamasyaitā hitā nāma nāḍyo'ntarhṛdaye pratiṣṭhitā bhavantyetābhirvā etadāsravadāsravati tasmādeṣa praviviktāhāratara ivaiva bhavatyasmācchārīrādātmanaḥ
'Now that which in the shape of a person is in the right eye, is his wife, Virâg. Their meeting-place is the ether within the heart, and their food the red lump within the heart. Again, their covering is that which is like net-work within the heart, and the road on which they move (from sleep to waking) is the artery that rises upwards from the heart. Like a hair divided into a thousand parts, so are the veins of it, which are called Hita, placed firmly within the heart. Through these indeed that (food) flows on flowing, and he (the Taigasa) receives as it were purer food than the corporeal Self (the Vaisvânara).
4.2.4
tasya prācī dikprāñcaḥ prāṇā dakṣiṇā digdakṣiṇe prāṇāḥ pratīci dikprratyañcaḥprāṇā udīcī digudañcaḥ prāṇā ūrdhvā digūrdhvāḥ prāṇā avācī digavāñcaḥprāṇāḥ sarvā diśaḥ sarve prāṇāḥ sa eṣa neti netyātmāgṛhmo na hi gṛhyate'śīryo na hi śīryate'saṅgo nahi sajyate'sito na vyathate ga riṣyatyabhayaṃvai janaka prāpto'sīti hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ | sa hovāca jaṃnako vaideho'bhayaṃ tvā gacchatādyājñavalkya yo no bhagavannabhayaṃ vedayase namaste'stvime videhā ayamahamasmi
'His (the Taigasa's) Eastern quarter are the prânas (breath) which go to the East;
'His Southern quarter are the prânas which go to the South;
'His Western quarter are the prânas which go to the West;
'His Northern quarter are the prânas which go to the North;
'His Upper (Zenith) quarter are the prânas which go upward;
'His Lower (Nadir) quarter are the prânas which go downward;
'All the quarters are all the prânas. And he (the Âtman in that state) can only be described by No, no! He is incomprehensible, for he cannot be comprehended; he is undecaying, for he cannot decay; he is not attached, for he does not attach himself; he is unbound, he does not suffer, he does not perish. O Ganaka, you have indeed reached fearlessness,'--thus said Yâgñavalkya.
Then Ganaka said: 'May that fearlessness come to you also who teachest us fearlessness. I bow to you. Here are the Videhas, and here am I (thy slave).'
4.2.4.p1
iti caturthādhyāye dvitīyaṃ 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
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
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