[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) › 3.2.12 # Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.2.12 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.2.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.12) ekabhūyaṃ vai prāṇā bhūtvaikaikam etāni sarvāṇi prajñāpayantīti / > Now on this point some say: ‘The vital breaths (\_prāṇa\_), verily, go into a unity, for’—so they say (\_iti\_)—‘\[otherwise\] no one would be able at once to cause to know a name with speech, a form with the eye, a sound with the ear, a thought with the mind. As a unity, verily, the vital breaths, every single one, cause to know all things here. All the vital breaths speak along with speech when it speaks. All the vital breaths see along with the eye when it sees. All the vital breaths hear along with the ear when it hears. All the vital breaths think along with the mind when it thinks. All the vital breaths breathe along with breath (\_prāṇa\_) when it breathes.’ ‘That is indeed so,’ said Indra. ‘There is, however,’ he continued (\_iti\_), ‘a superior excellence among the vital breaths. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads - [Previous: 3.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.11) - [Next: 3.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.13) - [Up: 3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2) ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-hume.3.p16) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.2) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja.3.20) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.12) · Pramāṇa