Prashna Upanishad with Shankara鈥檚 Commentary
by S. Sitarama Sastri | 1928 | 19,194 words
The Prashna Upanishad is a series philosophical poems presented as questions (prashna) inquired by various Hindu sages (Rishi) and answered by Sage Pippalada. The questions discuss knowledge about Brahman, the relation of the individual (Purusha) with the universal (Atman), meditation, immortality and various other Spiritual topics. This commentar...
Verse 2.6
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啶嬥啷� 啶啷傕啶粪た 啶膏ぞ啶ぞ啶ㄠた 啶啷嵿啶� 啶曕啶多い啷嵿ぐ啶� 啶啶班す啷嵿ぎ 啶� 啷� 啷� 啷�ar膩 iva rathan膩bhau pr膩峁噀 sarva峁� prati峁ａ弓hitam |
峁沜o yaj奴m虗峁 s膩m膩ni yaj帽a岣� k艣atra峁� brahma ca || 6 ||6. As spokes in the nave of a wheel, so all is centred in Prana. Riks, Yajur, Samams, sacrifices, Kshatriyas and Brahmins.
Shankara鈥檚 Commentary:
Com.鈥擜s spokes in the nave of a wheel, all from sraddha (faith) down to name is centred in Prana, while they endure; so also Rik, Yajur and Sama Vedas, the three kinds of mantras, and what is accomplished by them, i.e., the sacrifice, the Kshatriyas, pro tectors of all and the Brahmins competent to perform sacrifices and other karma. Prana is all this.