Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.4: M 5 / K 4
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 5.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
Contents
- 5.4.1 — 1 part
M 5 / K 4
5.4.1
tadvai tadetadeva tadāsa satyameva sa yo haitaṃ mahadyakṣaṃ prathamajaṃ veda satyaṃ brahmeti jayatīmām̐llokānjita innvasāvasadya evametaṃ mahadyakṣaṃ prathamajaṃveda satyaṃ brahmeti satyam̐ hyeva brahma
Thatfootnote{The pronoun ‘Tat’ (that or it) occurs thrice in the text. The last two (as well as the particle ‘vai’) have been omitted in the translation to avoid confusion. They are explained in the commentary.} (intellect-Brahman) was but this—Satya (gross and subtle) alone. He who knows this great, adorable, first-born (being) as the Satya-Brahman, conquers these worlds, and his (enemy) is thus conquered and becomes non-existent—he who knows this great, adorable, first-born (being) thus, as the Satya-Brahman, for Satya is indeed Brahman.
5.4.1.p1
iti pañcamādhyāye caturthaṃ brāhmaṇam
Translations (2)
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (10)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Discussed in (4)
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, 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