[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) › [Prashna Upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna) › 6.4 # Prashna Upanishad 6.4 Praśnopaniṣad 6.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.4) sa prāṇamasṛjata prāṇācchraddhāṃ khaṃ vāyurjyotirāpaḥ pṛthivīndriyaṃ mano'nnamannādvīryaṃtapo mantrāḥ karma lokā lokeṣuca nāma ca > He created Prāṇa; from Prāṇa (He created) faith, space, air, fire, water, earth, organs, mind, food; from food (He created) vigour, self-control, mantras, rites, worlds, and name in the worlds. > — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya ### [6.4.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.4.p1) sa yathemā nadyaḥ syandamānāḥ samudrāyaṇāḥ samudraṃ prāpyāstaṃ gacchanti bhidyete tāsāṃ nāmarūpe samudra ityevaṃ procyate > The illustration is this: Just as these flowing rivers that have the sea as their goal, get absorbed after reaching the sea, and their names and forms are destroyed, and they are called merely the sea, so also these sixteen parts (i.e. constituents) of the all-seeing Puruṣa, that have Puruṣa as their goal, disappear on reaching Puruṣa, when their names and forms are destroyed and they are simply called Puruṣa. Such a man of realisation becomes free from the parts and is immortal. On this point there occurs this verse: > — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya ## Translations (4) - [Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-gambhirananda.6.4) — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English - [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-muller.6.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English - [The Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-nikhilananda.6.4) — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna~en-hume.6.p7) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English ## Commentaries (6) - [Praśnopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!sankara.126.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit - [Praśnaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!rangaramanuja.6.16) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit - [Khaṇḍārtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!raghavendra-tirtha.6.2) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit - [Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!sankara~en-gambhirananda.6.4.p1) — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!upanisadbrahmayogin.6.4) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit - [Ṭīkā of Jayatīrtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna!madhva!jayatirtha.5.5.1) — Jayatīrtha, Sanskrit ## Discussed in (5) - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c94.23) — Kane 1930, English - [Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.radhakrishnan-1923.v1.c9.s3.98) — Radhakrishnan 1923, English - [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c10.s1.t2.25) — Deussen & Geden 1899, English - [The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1912.c6.s3.t4.3) — Deussen & Johnston 1883, English - [A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.ranade-1926.c12.137) — Ranade 1926, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.prasna.6.4) · Pramāṇa