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'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that name.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.2) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.3) nāham etan nāma prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.4) na hi prajñāpetaḥ ghrāṇo gandhaṃ kañcana prajñāpayet / > For truly, apart from intelligence breath would not make cognizant of any odor whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that odor.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.5) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.6) nāham etaṃ gandhaṃ prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.7) na hi prajñāpetaṃ cakṣū rūpaṃ kiñcana prajñāpayet / > For truly, apart from intelligence the eye would not make cognizant of any form whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that form.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.8) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.9) nāham etad rūpaṃ prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.10) na hi prajñāpetaṃ śrotraṃ śabdaṃ kañcana prajñāpayet / > For truly, apart from intelligence the ear would not make cognizant of any sound whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that sound.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.11) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.12) nāham etaṃ śabdaṃ prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.13) na prajñāpetā jihvānnarasaṃ kañcana prajñāpayet / > For truly, apart from intelligence the tongue would not make cognizant of any taste whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that taste.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.14) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.15) nāham etam annarasaṃ prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.16) na hi prajñāpetau hastau karma kiñcana prajñāpayeyātām / > For truly, apart from intelligence the two hands would not make cognizant of any action whatsoever. 'My (me) mind was elsewhere,' one says (āha); 'I (aham) did not cognize (prājñāsiṣam) that action.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.17) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.18) nāham etat karma prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.19) na hi prajñāpetaṃ śarīraṃ sukhaduḥkhaṃ kiñcana prajñāpayet / > For truly, apart from intelligence the body would not make cognizant of any pleasure or pain whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that pleasure or pain.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.20) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.21) nāham etat sukhaduḥkhaṃ prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.22) na hi prajñāpeta upastha ānandaṃ ratiṃ prajātiṃ kāñcana prajñāpayet / > For truly, apart from intelligence the generative organ would not make cognizant of any bliss, delight, and procreation whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that bliss, delight, and procreation.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.23) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.24) nāham etam ānandaṃ na ratiṃ na prajātiṃ prājñāsiṣam iti / ### [3.7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.25) na hi prajñāpetau pādāv ityāṃ kāñcana prajñāpayeyātām / > For truly, apart from intelligence the two feet would not make cognizant of any going whatsoever. 'My mind was elsewhere,' one says; 'I did not cognize that going.' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [3.7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.26) anyatra me mano 'bhūd ity āha / ### [3.7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.27) nāham etām ityāṃ prājñāsiṣam / ### [3.7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7.28) iti na hi prajñāpetā dhīḥ kācana sidhyen na prajñātavyaṃ prajñāyeta //7// > For truly, apart from intelligence no thought (dhī) whatsoever would be effected; nothing cognizable would be cognized. > — 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.p50) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki~en-muller.3.7) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English ## Commentaries (3) - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣadbhāṣya (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!rangaramanuja.3.54-2) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakyupaniṣaddīpikā (Śaṅkarānanda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!sankarananda.3.6) — Śaṅkarānanda, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.7) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.5.7) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.3.7) · Pramāṇa