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# Kena Upanishad 4.4

Kenopaniṣad 4.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena.4.4)

tasyaiṣa ādeśo  
yad etad vidyuto vyadyutadā itīn nyamīmiṣadā  
ity adhidaivatam

> This is Its instruction (about meditation) through analogy. It is like that which is (known as) the flash of lightning, and It is also as though the eye winked. These are (illustrations) in a divine context.footnote{Analogies with regard to Brahman as It exists in Its divine, but conditioned, form in the solar orb. Cf. Gītā VIII. 4 Brahman in Its form as Hiraṇyagarbha resides in the solar orb and presides over all the deities that are but Its different manifestations.}  
> — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

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## Translations (4)

- [Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-gambhirananda.4.4) — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Talavakâra-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-muller.4.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- [The Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-nikhilananda.4.4) — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena~en-hume.0.p36) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (6)

- [Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara.4.4.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kenaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!rangaramanuja.4.3.p8) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!padapatha.4.4) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Kenopaniṣadvākyabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!sankara-vakya.4.4) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kena!raghavendra-tirtha.p26) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit

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