[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) › 3.3 # Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.3 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 3.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.1) jīvati vāgapetaḥ / > 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 ### [3.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.2) mūkān hi paśyāmaḥ / ### [3.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.3) jīvati cakṣurapetaḥ / ### [3.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.4) andhān hi paśyāmaḥ / ### [3.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.5) jīvati śrotrāpetaḥ / ### [3.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.6) badhirān hi paśyāmaḥ / ### [3.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.7) jīvati mano'petaḥ / ### [3.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.8) bālān hi paśyāmaḥ / ### [3.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.9) jīvati bāhuchinnaḥ / ### [3.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.10) jīvaty ūrucchinna iti / ### [3.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.11) evaṃ hi paśyāma iti / ### [3.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.12) atha khalu prāṇa eva prajñātmā \[idaṃ śarīraṃ parigṛhyotthāpayati / ### [3.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.13) tasmād etad evoktham upāsīteti / ### [3.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.14) saiṣā prāṇe sarvāptir\] yo vai prāṇaḥ sā prajñā / > This is the All-obtaining (\_sarvāpti\_) in the breathing spirit (\_prāṇa\_). > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads > As for the breathing spirit—verily, that is the intelligential > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.15) yā vai prajñā sa prāṇaḥ / > self! As for the intelligential self—verily, that is the breathing spirit. For truly, these two dwell in this body; together the two depart.’ > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.16) tasyaiṣaiva dṛṣṭir etad vijñānam / > This is the view (\_dṛṣṭi\_) thereof, this the understanding (\_vijñāna\_):— > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.17) yatraitat puruṣaḥ suptaḥ svapnaṃ na kañcana paśyaty athāsmin prāṇa evaikadhā bhavanti / > When a person is so asleep that he sees no dream whatever, then he becomes unitary in this breathing spirit. Then speech together with all names goes to it; the eye together with all forms goes to it; the ear together with all sounds goes to it; the mind together with all thoughts goes to it. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.18) tad enaṃ vāk sarvair nāmabhiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.19) cakṣuḥ sarvai rūpaiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.20) śrotraṃ sarvaiḥ śabdaiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.21) manaḥ sarvair dhyānaiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.22) sa yadā pratibudhyate yathāgner jvalataḥ sarvā diśo viṣphuliṅgā vipratiṣṭherann evam evaitasmād ātmanaḥ prāṇā yathāyatanaṃ vipratiṣṭhante / > When he awakens—as from a blazing fire sparks would disperse in all directions, even so from this self (\_ātman\_) the vital breaths (\_prāṇa\_) disperse to their respective stations; from the vital breaths, the sense-powers (\_deva\_); from the sense-powers, the worlds. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.23) prāṇebhyo devāḥ / ### [3.3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.24) devebhyo lokāḥ / ### [3.3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.25) sa eṣa prāṇa eva prajñātmedaṃ śarīraṃ parigṛhyotthāpayati / > This selfsame breathing spirit as the intelligential self 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 ### [3.3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.26) tasmād etad evoktham upāsīteti / ### [3.3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.27) saiṣā prāṇe sarvāptiḥ / > This is the All-obtaining in the breathing spirit. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.28) yo vai prāṇaḥ sā prajñā / > As for the breathing spirit—verily, that is the intelligential self. As for the intelligential self—verily, that is the breathing spirit. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.29) yā vai prajñā sa prāṇaḥ / ### [3.3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.30) tasyaiṣaiva siddhir etad vijñānam / > This is the proof (\_siddhi\_) thereof, this the understanding:— > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.31) yatraitat puruṣa ārto mariṣyan ābalyaṃ nītya sammohaṃ nyeti tad āhur udakramīc cid \ / > When a sick person about to die comes to such weakness that he comes to a stupor (\_sammoha\_), then they say of him: ‘His thought (\_citta\_) has departed. He hears not. He sees not. He speaks not with speech. He thinks not.’ Then he becomes unitary in this breathing spirit (\_prāṇa\_). Then speech together with all names goes to it; the eye together with all forms goes to it; the ear together with all sounds goes to it; the mind together with all thoughts goes to it. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.32) tan na śṛṇoti na paśyati na vācā vadati na dhyāyati / ### [3.3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.33) athāsmin prāṇa evaikadhā bhavanti / ### [3.3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.34) tad enaṃ vāk sarvair nāmabhiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.35) cakṣuḥ sarvai rūpaiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.36) śrotraṃ sarvaiḥ śabdaiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.37) manaḥ sarvair dhyānaiḥ sahāpyeti / ### [3.3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3.38) sa yadāsmāc charīrād utkrāmati sahaivaitaiḥ sarvair utkrāmati //3// > (4) When he departs from this body, he departs together with all these. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ## 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 (3) - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja.3.24-2) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda.3.2.1) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.2) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.5.3) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.3) · Pramāṇa