Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.7.1
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 5.7.1
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.7.1
vidyudbrahmetyāhurvidānādvidyudvidyatyenaṃ pāpmano ya evaṃ veda vidyudbrahmeti vadyuddhyeva brahma
They say lightning is Brahman. It is called lightning (Vidyut) because it scatters (darkness). He who knows it as such—that lightning is Brahman—scatters evils (that are ranged against) him, for lightning is indeed Brahman.
5.7.1.p1
iti pañcamādhyāye saptamaṃ 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
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
Linked texts (7)
- Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Mantrapuṣpa — Sanskrit
- Upaniṣads — Sanskrit
- Aṣṭāviṃśatyupaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Īśādidvādaśopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Different Upaniṣads — Sanskrit
- Vedāntasamanvaya — Gurugovinda Rāya, Sanskrit
Discussed in (1)
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English