[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad) › [Principal (early) Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya) › [Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki) › 2.1 # Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 2.1 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 2.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.1) prāṇo brahmeti ha smāha kauṣītakiḥ / > 1. ‘The breathing spirit (prāṇa) is Brahma’—thus indeed was Kaushītaki wont to say. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.2) tasya ha vā etasya prāṇasya brahmaṇo mano dūtam / > Of this same breathing spirit as Brahma, verily, indeed, the mind (\_manas\_) is the messenger; the eye, the watchman; the ear, the announcer; speech, the handmaid. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.3) cakṣur goptṛ / ### [2.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.4) śrotraṃ saṃśrāvayitṛ / ### [2.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.5) vāk pariveṣṭrī \[sa yo ha vā etasya prāṇasya brahmaṇo mano dūtam veda dūtavān bhavati / > He who, verily, indeed, knows the mind as the messenger of this breathing spirit, \[i. e.\] of Brahma, becomes possessed of a messenger; he who knows the eye as the watchman, becomes possessed of a watchman; he who knows the ear as the announcer, becomes possessed of an announcer; he who knows speech as the handmaid, becomes possessed of a handmaid. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.6) yaś cakṣur goptṛ goptṛmān bhavati / ### [2.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.7) yaḥ śrotraṃ saṃśrāvayitṛ saṃśrāvayitṛmān bhavati / ### [2.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.8) yo vācaṃ pariveṣṭrīm pariveṣṭrīmān bhavati\] tasmai vā etasmai prāṇāya brahmaṇa etāḥ sarvā devatā ayācamānāya baliṃ haranti / > To this same breathing spirit as Brahma, verily, all these divinities without his begging bring offering. Likewise, indeed, to this same breathing spirit all beings without his begging bring offering. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.9) evaṃ haivāsmai sarvāṇi bhūtāny ayācamānāyaiva baliṃ haranti ya evaṃ veda / ### [2.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.10) tasyopaniṣan na yāced iti / > Of him who knows this, the secret doctrine (\_upaniṣad\_) is: ‘One should not beg.’ It is as if, having begged of a village and not having received, one were to sit down, saying: ‘I would not eat anything given from here!’ and then those very ones who formerly refused him invite him, saying: ‘Let us give to you!’ Such is the virtue (\_dharma\_) of the non-beggar. Charitable people, however, address him, saying divinities without his begging bring offering. Likewise indeed, to him all beings without his begging bring offering. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.11) tad yathā grāmaṃ bhikṣitvā 'labdhvopaviśen nāham ato dattam aśnīyām iti / ### [2.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.12) ya evainaṃ purastāt pratyācakṣīraṃsta evainam upamantrayante dadāma ta iti / ### [2.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.13) eṣa dharmo 'yācato bhavati / ### [2.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1.14) annadās tv evainam upamantrayante dadāma ta iti //1// ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-hume.2.p3) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.2.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English ## Commentaries (3) - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda.1.7.2) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (8) - [Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.4.1) — Sanskrit - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s11.956) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English - [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.samanya.astottarasatopanisadah.284.1-2) — Sanskrit - [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.upanisads.274.1-2) — Sanskrit - [Aṣṭāviṃśatyupaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.astavimsatyupanisad.268.1) — Sanskrit - [Kaiṣītaki ?](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kaisitaki.2.1) — Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitakopanisad.2.1) — Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanīyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.sankhayaniyopanisad.5.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.2.1) · Pramāṇa