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# Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.3.4

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.3.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.4)

andhān hi paśyāmaḥ /

> 3. One lives with speech gone, for we see the dumb; one lives with eye gone, for we see the blind; one lives with ear gone, for we see the deaf; one lives with mind gone, for we see the childish; one lives with arms cut off, one lives with legs cut off, for thus we see. But now it is the breathing spirit (\_prāṇa\_), even the intelligential self (\_prajñātman\_), that seizes hold of and animates (\_ut-thā\_) this body. This, therefore, one should reverence as the Uktha.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (2)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-hume.3.p18) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda.3.2.1) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit

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