{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe15/sbe15074.htm","path":"hin/sbe15/sbe15074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15074.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Ganaka Vaideha, descending from his throne, said: 'I bow to you, O Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya, teach me.'\nY\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya said: 'Your Majesty, as a man who wishes to make a long journey, would furnish himself with a chariot or a ship, thus is your mind well\nfurnished by these Upanishads 1. You are honourable, and wealthy, you have learnt the Vedas and been told the Upanishads. Whither then will you go when departing hence?'\nGanaka Vaideha said: 'Sir, I do not know whither I shall go.'\nY\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya said: 'Then I shall tell you this, whither you will go.'\nGanaka Vaideha said: 'Tell it, Sir.'\n2. Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya said: 'That person who is in the right eye 2, he is called Indha, and him who is Indha they call indeed 3 Indra mysteriously, for the gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident.\n3. 'Now that which in the shape of a person is in the right eye, is his wife, Vir\u00e2g 4. Their meeting-place 5 is the ether within the heart, and their food the red lump within the heart. Again, their covering 6 is that which is like net-work within the heart, and the road on which they move (from sleep to waking) is the artery that rises upwards from the heart. Like a hair divided into a thousand parts, so are the veins of it, which are called Hita 7, placed\nfirmly within the heart. Through these indeed that (food) flows on flowing, and he (the Taigasa) receives as it were purer food 1 than the corporeal Self (the Vaisv\u00e2nara).\n4. 'His (the Taigasa's) Eastern quarter are the pr\u00e2nas (breath) which go to the East;\n'His Southern quarter are the pr\u00e2nas which go to the South;\n'His Western quarter are the pr\u00e2nas which go to the West;\n'His Northern quarter are the pr\u00e2nas which go to the North;\n'His Upper (Zenith) quarter are the pr\u00e2nas which go upward;\n'His Lower (Nadir) quarter are the pr\u00e2nas which go downward;\n'All the quarters are all the pr\u00e2nas. And he (the \u00c2tman in that state) can only be described by No 2, no! He is incomprehensible, for he cannot be comprehended; he is undecaying, for he cannot decay; he is not attached, for he does not attach himself; he is unbound, he does not suffer, he does not perish. O Ganaka, you have indeed reached fearlessness,'--thus said Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya.\nThen Ganaka said: 'May that fearlessness come to you also who teachest us fearlessness. I bow to you. Here are the Videhas, and here am I (thy slave).'\n159:1 This refers to the preceding doctrines which had been communicated to Ganaka by other teachers, and particularly to the up\u00e2sanas of Brahman as knowledge, dear, true, endless, bliss, and certainty.\n159:2 See also Maitr. Up. VII, p. 216.\n159:3 The M\u00e2dhyandinas read paroksheneva, but the commentator explains iva by eva. See also Ait. Up. I, 3, 14.\n159:4 Indra is called by the commentator Vaisv\u00e2nara, and his wife Vir\u00e2g. This couple, in a waking state, is Visva; in sleep, Taigasa.\n159:5 Samst\u00e2va, lit. the place where they sing praises together, that is, where they meet.\n159:6 Pr\u00e2varana may also mean hiding-place, retreat.\n159:7 Hita, a name frequently given to these n\u00e2d\u00ees; see IV, 3, 20; Kh\u00e2nd. Up. VI, 5, 3, comm.; Kaush. Up. IV, 20. See also Katha Up. VI, 16.\n160:1 Dvivedaga\u1e45ga explains that food, when it is eaten, is first of all changed into the coarse food, which goes away downward, and into the subtler food. This subtler food is again divided into the middle juice that feeds the body, and the finest, which is called the red lump.\n160:2 See Brih. Up. II, 3, 6; IV, 9, 26.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15): Brihad\u00e2ranyaka Upanishad: IV, 2","type":"page"}