Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.1.9
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 6.1.9
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- Sanskrit
6.1.9
cakṣurhoccakrāma tatsaṃvatmaraṃ proṣyāgatyovāca kathamaśakata madṛte jīvitumiti te hocuryathāndhā apaśyantaścakṣuṣā prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa vidvām̐so manasā prajāyamānā retasaivamajīviṣmeti praviveśa ha cakṣuḥ
The eye 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 blind people do, without seeing through the eye, but living through the vital force, speaking through the organ of speech, hearing through the ear, knowing through the mind and having children through the organ of generation.' So the eye entered.
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
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit