Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.2.3
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.2.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
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).
Translations (1)
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (7)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
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- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English
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