Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.1.12
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 6.1.12
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.1.12
reto hoccakrāma tatsaṃvatsaraṃ proṣyāgatyovāca kathamaśakata madṛte jīvitumiti te hocuryathā klībā aprajāyamānā retasā prāṇantaḥ prāṇenavadanto vācā paśyantaścakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa vidvām̐so manasaivamajīviṣmeti praviveśa ha retaḥ
The organ of generation went out. After staying a whole year out it came back and said, ‘How did you manage to live without me?’ They said, ‘We lived just as eunuchs do, without having children through the organ of generation, but living through the vital force, speaking through the organ of speech, seeing through the eye, hearing through the ear and knowing through the mind.’ So the organ of generation entered.
Translations (2)
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
Commentaries (11)
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Madhavananda 1934, English
- 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