Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.2.12
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 6.2.12
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.2.12
puruṣo vā agnirgautama tasya vyāttameva samitprāṇo dhūmo vāgarciścakṣuraṅgārāḥ śrotraṃ visphuliṅgāstasminnetasminnagnau devā annaṃ juhvati tasyā āhutyai retaḥ saṃbhavati
Man, O Gautama, is fire, the open mouth is its fuel, the vital force its smoke, speech its flame, the eye its cinder, and the ear its sparks. In this fire the gods offer food. Out of that offering the seed is produced.
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
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama 1820, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaṭīkā — Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Dīpikā of Vidyāraṇya — Mādhava, Sanskrit