{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe15/sbe15111.htm","path":"hin/sbe15/sbe15111.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15111.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Then Sukesas Bh\u00e2radv\u00e2ga asked him, saying: 'Sir, Hiranyan\u00e2bha, the prince of Kosal\u00e2 2, came to me and asked this question: Do you know the person of sixteen parts, O Bh\u00e2radv\u00e2ga? I said to the prince: I do not know him; if I knew him, how should I not tell you? Surely, he who speaks what is untrue withers away to the very root; therefore I will not say what is untrue. Then he mounted his chariot and went away silently. Now I ask you, where is that person?'\n2. He replied: 'Friend, that person is here within the body, he in whom these sixteen parts arise.\n3. He reflected: What is it by whose departure I shall depart, and by whose staying I shall stay?\n4. He sent forth (created) Pr\u00e2na (spirit) 3; from\n[paragraph continues] Pr\u00e2na Sraddh\u00e2 (faith) 1, ether, air, light, water, earth, sense, mind, food; from food came vigour, penance, hymns, sacrifice, the worlds, and in the worlds the name 2 also.\n5. As these flowing rivers 3 that go towards the ocean, when they have reached the ocean, sink into it, their name and form are broken, and people speak of the ocean only, exactly thus these sixteen parts of the spectator that go towards the person (purusha), when they have reached the person, sink into him, their name and form are broken, and people speak of the person only, and he becomes without parts and immortal. On this there is this verse:\n6. That person who is to be known, he in whom these parts rest, like spokes in the nave of a wheel, you know him, lest death should hurt you.'\n7. Then he (Pippal\u00e2da) said to them: 'So far do I know this Highest Brahman, there is nothing higher than it.'\n8. And they praising him, said: 'You, indeed, are our father, you who carry us from our ignorance to the other shore.'\nAdoration to the highest Rishis!\nTat sat. Harih, Om!\n283:2 Sa\u1e45kara explains Kausalya by Kosal\u00e2y\u00e2m bhavah. \u00c2nandat\u00eertha gives the same explanation. Kosal\u00e2 is the capital, generally called Ayodhy\u00e2. There is no authority for the palatal s.\n283:3 Sa\u1e45kara explains pr\u00e2na by sarvapr\u00e2no Hiranyagarbha (sarvapr\u00e2nikaran\u00e2dh\u00e2ram antar\u00e2tm\u00e2nam).\n284:1 Faith is supposed to make all beings act rightly.\n284:2 N\u00e2ma stands here for n\u00e2mar\u00fbpe, name (concept) and form. See before, p. 259.\n284:3 Cf. Mund. Up. IV, 2, 8; Kh\u00e2nd. Up. VIII, 10.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15): Pras\u00f1a Upanishad: Sixth Question","type":"page"}