Praśna Upaniṣad ("Six Questions") 6.4
Praśnopaniṣad 6.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.4
sa prāṇamasṛjata prāṇācchraddhāṃ khaṃ vāyurjyotirāpaḥ pṛthivīndriyaṃ mano'nnamannādvīryaṃtapo mantrāḥ karma lokā lokeṣuca nāma ca
4. He created life (prāṇa); from life, faith (śraddhā), space (kha), wind, light, water, earth, sense-faculty (indriya), mind, food; from food, virility, austerity, sacred sayings (mantra), sacrifice, the worlds; and in the worlds, name [i. e. the individual].
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sa yathemā nadyaḥ syandamānāḥ samudrāyaṇāḥ samudraṃ prāpyāstaṃ gacchanti bhidyete
tāsāṃ nāmarūpe samudra ityevaṃ procyate
5. As these flowing rivers that tend toward the ocean, on reaching the ocean, disappear, their name and form (nāma-rūpa) are destroyed, and it is called simply "the ocean"—even so of this spectator these sixteen parts that tend toward the Person, on reaching the Person, disappear, their name and form are destroyed, and it is called simply "the Person." That one continues without parts, immortal! As to that there is this verse:—
Translations (2)
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (5)
- Praśnopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Praśnaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Ṭīkā of Jayatīrtha — Jayatīrtha, Sanskrit
Linked texts (5)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Indian Philosophy — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary — Paul Deussen & Charles Johnston, English
- A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy — R. D. Ranade, English