[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) › 3.2.1 # Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.2.1 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.2.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.1) sa hovāca prāṇo 'smi prajñātmā / > 2. Then he said: ‘I am the breathing spirit (\_prāṇa\_), the intelligential self (\_prajñātman\_). As such (\_tam\_), reverence me as life (\_āyus\_), as immortality. Life is the breathing spirit. The breathing spirit, verily, is life. The breathing spirit, indeed, is immortality. For, as long as the breathing spirit remains in this body, so long is there life. For indeed, with the breathing spirit in this world one obtains immortality; with intelligence, true conception (\_saṃkalpa\_). > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads - [Previous: 3.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.1.17) - [Next: 3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.2) - [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.p13) — 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.3.14) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.2.1) · Pramāṇa