Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 1.2

1.2.1

sa hovāca ye vai ke cāsmāl lokāt prayanti candramasam eva te sarve gacchanti /

2. Then he said: 'Those who, verily, depart from this world—to the moon, in truth, they all go. During the earlier half it thrives on their breathing spirits (prāṇa); with the latter half it causes them to be reproduced. This, verily, is the door of the heavenly world—that is, the moon. Whoever answers it, him it lets go further. But whoever answers it not, him, having become rain, it rains down here. Either as a worm, or as a moth, or as a fish, or as a bird, or as a lion, or as a wild boar, or as a snake, or as a tiger, or as a person, or as some other in this or that condition, he is born again here according to his deeds (karman), according to his knowledge.

1.2.2

teṣāṃ prāṇaiḥ pūrvapakṣa āpyāyate /

1.2.3

tān aparapakṣeṇa prajanayati /

1.2.4

etad vai svargasya lokasya dvāraṃ yac candramāḥ /

1.2.5

taṃ yaḥ pratyāha tam atisṛjate /

1.2.6

atha ya enam na pratyāha tam iha vṛṣṭir bhūtvā varṣati /

1.2.7

sa iha kīṭo vā pataṅgo vā matsyo vā śakunir vā siṃho vā varāho vā parasvān vā śārdūlo vā puruṣo vānyo vā teṣu teṣu sthāneṣu pratyājāyate yathākarma yathāvidyam /

1.2.8

tam āgataṃ pṛcchati ko'sīti /

When he comes thither it asks him: 'Who are you?'

1.2.9

taṃ pratibrūyād /

He should reply:

1.2.A

vicakṣaṇād ṛtavo reta ābhṛtam

'From the far-shining, O ye seasons, has semen been gathered,
From the fifteenfold produced, from the realm of the fathers.
As such send ye me in a man as an agent.
With the man as an agent in a mother infuse me.

1.2.B

pañcadaśāt prasūtāt pitryāvatas /

1.2.C

tan mā puṃsi kartary erayadhvaṃ

1.2.D

puṃsā kartrā mātari māsiṣikta //

1.2.E

sa upajāya upajāyamāno

So am I born, being born forth as the twelfth or thirteenth succeeding month, by means of a twelveor thirteen-fold father. For the knowledge of this was I—for the knowledge of the opposite of this. So bring ye my seasons on to

1.2.F

dvādaśena trayodaśopamāsaḥ /

1.2.G

[dvādaśatrayodaśena pitrā]

1.2.H

saṃ tad vide 'haṃ prati tad vide 'haṃ

1.2.I

tan ma ṛtavo 'mṛtyava ābharadhvam //

1.2.J

tena satyena tena tapasa ṛtur

immortality. By this truth, by this austerity I am a season, I am connected with the seasons. Who am I? I am you.’ It lets him go further.

1.2.K

asmy ārtavo 'smi ko 'smi tvam asmi /

1.2.10

iti tam atisṛjate //2//