Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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KAUSHITAKI-UPANISHAD.
This Brahman shines forth indeed when one thinks with the mind, and it dies when one does not think. Its splendour goes to the breath (prâna) alone, and the life (prâna) to breath (pråna).
Thus all these deities (the senses, &c.), having · entered breath or life (prâna) alone, though dead, do not vanish ; and out of very breath (prâna) they rise again. · And if two mountains, the southern and northern, were to move forward trying to crush him who knows this, they would not crush him. But those who hate him and those whom he hates, they die around him.
14. Next follows the Nihsreyasadana? (the accepting of the pre-eminence of prâna (breath or life) by the other gods). The deities (speech, eye, ear, mind), contending with each for who was the best, went out of this body, and the body lay without breathing, withered, like a log of wood. Then speech went into it, but speaking by speech, it lay still. Then the eye went into it, but speaking by speech, and seeing by the eye, it lay still. Then the ear went into it, but speaking by speech, seeing by the eye, hearing by the ear, it lay still. Then mind went into it, but speaking by speech, seeing by the eye, hearing by the ear, thinking by the mind, it lay still. Then breath (prâna, life) went into it, and thence it rose at once. All these deities, having recognised the pre-eminence in prâna, and having comprehended prâna alone as the conscious self (pragñatman), went out of this body with all these (five different kinds of
For other versions of this story see Kh. Up. V, 1, note 2 ; Ait. År. II, 1, 4, 9; Brih. År. VI, 1, 1-14; and Kaush. Up. III, 3.
Cf. Kh. Up. VII, 15, note.
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