Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.5.15
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.5.15
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- Sanskrit
4.5.15
yatra hi dvaitamiva bhavati taditara itaraṃ paśyati taditara itaraṃ jighrati taditara itaram̐ rasa-yate taditara itaramabhivadati taditara itaram̐ śṛṇoti taditara itaraṃ manute taditara itaram̐ spṛśati taditara itaraṃ vijānāti yatra tvasya sarvamātmaivābhūttatkena kaṃ paśyettatkena kaṃ jighrettatkena kam̐ rasayettatkena kamabhivadettatkena kam̐ śṛṇuyāttatkena kaṃ manvīta tatkena kam̐ spṛśettatkena kaṃ vijānīyādyenedam̐ savaṃ vijānātitaṃ kena vijānīyātsa eṣa neti netyātmāgṛhmo na hi gṛhmate'śīryo na hi śīryate'saṅgo na hi sajyate'sito na vyathate na riṣyati vijñātāramare kena vijānīyādityuktānuśāsanāsi maitreyyetāvadare khalvamṛtatvamiti hoktvā yājñavalkyo vijahāra
Because when there is duality, as it were, then one sees something, one smells something, one tastes something, one speaks something, one hears something, one thinks something, one touches something, one knows something. But when to the knower of Brahman everything has become the Self, then what should one see and through what, what should one smell and through what, what should one taste and through what, what should one speak and through what, what should one hear and through what, what should one think and through what, what should one touch and through what, what should one know and through what? Through what should one know that owing to which all this is known? This self is That which has been described as 'Not this, not this.' It is imperceptible, for It is never perceived; undecaying, for It never decays; unattached, for It is never attached; unfettered—It never feels pain, and never suffers injury. Through what, O Maitreyi, should one know the knower? So you have got the instruction, Maitreyi. This much indeed is (the means of) immortality, my dear.' Saying this Yājñavalkya left home.
4.5.15.p1
iti caturthādhyāye pañcamaṃ brāhmaṇam
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
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
Discussed in (11)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- Indian Philosophy — Radhakrishnan 1923, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Studies in the Origins of Buddhism — Pande 1957, English
- Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge — Jayatilleke 1963, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English
- The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary — Deussen & Johnston 1883, English
- A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy — Ranade 1926, English
- Outlines of Indian Philosophy — Hiriyanna 1932, English
- The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society — Heesterman 1985, English