Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad

3.8.6

She said: `O Yagnavalkya, that of which they say that it is above the heavens, beneath the earth,...

3.8.7

Yagnavalkya said: `That of which they say that it is above the heavens, beneath the earth, embrac...

3.8.9

`By the command of that Akshara (the imperishable), O Gargi, sun and moon stand apart. By the com...

3.8.10

`Whosoever, O Gargi, without knowing that Akshara (the imperishable), offers oblations in this wo...

3.8.11

`That Brahman,' O Gargi, `is unseen, but seeing; unheard, but hearing; unperceived, but perceivin...

3.8.12

Then said Gargi: `Venerable Brahmans, you may consider it a great thing, if you get off by bowing...

3.9.1

Then Vidagdha Sakalya asked him: `How many gods are there, O Yagnavalkya?' He replied with this v...

3.9.2

Yagnavalkya replied: `They are only the various powers of them, in reality there are only thirtyt...

3.9.3

He asked: `Who are the Vasus.' Yagnavalkya replied: `Agni (fire), Prithivi (earth), Vayu (air), A...

3.9.4

He asked: `Who are the Rudras?' Yagnavalkya replied: `These ten vital breaths (pranas, the senses...

3.9.5

He asked: `Who are the Adityas?' Yagnavalkya replied: `The twelve months of the year, and they ar...

3.9.6

He asked: `And who is Indra, and who is Pragapati?' Yagnavalkya replied: `Indra is thunder, Praga...

3.9.7

He asked: `Who are the six?' Yagnavalkya replied: `Agni (fire), Prithivi (earth), Vayu (air), Ant...

3.9.8

He asked: `Who are the three gods?' Yagnavalkya replied: `These three worlds, for in them all the...

3.9.9

Here they say: `How is it that he who blows like one only, should be called one and a half (adhya...

3.9.10

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person (or god) whose dwelling (body) is the earth, whose sig...

3.9.11

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is love (a body capable of sensual love...

3.9.12

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling are the colours, whose sight is the eye...

3.9.13

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is ether, whose sight is the ear, whose...

3.9.14

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is darkness, whose sight is the heart, ...

3.9.15

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling are (bright) colours, whose sight is th...

3.9.16

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is water, whose sight is the heart, who...

3.9.17

Sakalya said: `Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is seed, whose sight is the heart, whos...

3.9.18

Yagnavalkya said: `Sakalya, did those make thee the victim?' Sakalya said: `Yagnavalkya, because ...

3.9.19

Yagnavalkya said: `I know the quarters with their deities and their abodes.' Sakalya said: `If th...

3.9.20

`Which is thy deity in the Eastern quarter?' Yagnavalkya said: `Aditya (the sun).' Sakalya said: ...

3.9.21

Sakalya said: `Which is thy deity in the Southern quarter?' Yagnavalkya said: `Yama.' Sakalya sai...

3.9.22

Sakalya said: `Which is thy deity in the Western quarter?' Yagnavalkya said: `Varuna.' Sakalya sa...

3.9.23

Sakalya said: `Which is thy deity in the Northern quarter?' Yagnavalkya said: `Soma.' Sakalya sai...

3.9.24

Sakalya said: `Which is thy deity in the zenith?' Yagnavalkya said: `Agni.' Sakalya said: `In wha...

3.9.25

Yagnavalkya said: `O Ahallika, when you think the heart could be anywhere else away from us, if i...

3.9.26

Sakalya said: `And in what dost thou (thy body) and the Self (thy heart) abide?' Yagnavalkya said...

3.9.28

Then Yagnavalkya questioned them with these Slokas: 1. `As a mighty tree in the forest, so in tru...

4.1.1

When Ganaka Vaideha was sitting (to give audience), Yagnavalkya approached, and Ganaka Vaideha sa...

4.1.2

`Let us hear what anybody may have told you.' Ganaka Vaideha replied: `Gitvan Sailini told me tha...

4.1.3

Yagnavalkya said: `Let us hear what anybody may have told you.' Ganaka Vaideha replied: `Udanka S...

4.1.4

Yagnavalkya said: `Let us hear what anybody may have told you.' Ganaka Vaideha replied: `Barku Va...

4.1.5

Yagnavalkya said: `Let us hear what anybody may have told you.' Ganaka Vaideha replied: `Gardabhi...

4.1.6

Yagnavalkya said: `Let us hear what anybody may have told you.' Ganaka Vaideha replied: `Satyakam...

4.1.7

Yagnavalkya said: `Let us hear what anybody may have told you.' Ganaka Vaideha replied: `Vidagdha...

4.2.1

Ganaka Vaideha, descending from his throne, said: `I bow to you, O Yagnavalkya, teach me.' Yagnav...

4.2.2

Yagnavalkya said: `That person who is in the right eye, he is called Indha, and him who is Indha ...

4.2.3

`Now that which in the shape of a person is in the right eye, is his wife, Virag. Their meetingpl...

4.2.4

`His (the Taigasa's) Eastern quarter are the pranas (breath) which go to the East; `His Southern ...

4.3.1

Yagnavalkya came to Ganaka Vaideha, and he did not mean to speak with him. But when formerly Gana...

4.3.2

`Yagnavalkya,' he said, `what is the light of man?' Yagnavalkya replied: `The sun, O King; for, h...

4.3.3

Ganaka Vaideha said: `When the sun has set, O Yagnavalkya, what is then the light of man?' Yagnav...

4.3.4

Ganaka Vaideha said: `When the sun has set, O Yagnavalkya, and the moon has set, what is the ligh...

4.3.5

Ganaka Vaideha said: `When the sun has set, O Yagnavalkya, and the moon has set, and the fire is ...

4.3.6

Ganaka Vaideha said: `When the sun has set, O Yagnavalkya, and the moon has set, and the fire is ...

4.3.7

Ganaka Vaideha said: `Who is that Self?' Yagnavalkya replied: `He who is within the heart, surrou...

4.3.8

`On being born that person, assuming his body, becomes united with all evils; when he departs and...

4.3.9

`And there are two states for that person, the one here in this world, the other in the other wor...

4.3.10

`There are no (real) chariots in that state, no horses, no roads, but he himself sends forth (cre...

4.3.11

`On this there are these verses: `After having subdued by sleep all that belongs to the body, he,...

4.3.12

`Guarding with the breath (prana, life) the lower nest, the immortal moves away from the nest; th...

4.3.13

`Going up and down in his dream, the god makes manifold shapes for himself, either rejoicing toge...

4.3.14

`People may see his playground, but himself no one ever sees. Therefore they say, "Let no one wak...

4.3.15

Yagnavalkya said: `That (person) having enjoyed himself in that state of bliss (samprasada, deep ...

4.3.16

Yagnavalkya said: `That (person) having enjoyed himself in that sleep (dream), having moved about...

4.3.17

Yagnavalkya said: `That (person) having enjoyed himself in that state of waking, having moved abo...

4.3.18

`In fact, as a large fish moves along the two banks of a river, the right and the left, so does t...

4.3.19

`And as a falcon, or any other (swift) bird, after he has roamed about here in the air, becomes t...

4.3.20

`There are in his body the veins called Hita, which are as small as a hair divided a thousandfold...

4.3.21

`This indeed is his (true) form, free from desires, free from evil, free from fear. Now as a man,...

4.3.22

`Then a father is not a father, a mother not a mother, the worlds not worlds, the gods not gods, ...

4.3.23

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not see, yet he is seeing, though he ...

4.3.24

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not smell, yet he is smelling, though...

4.3.25

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not taste, yet he is tasting, though ...

4.3.26

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not speak, yet he is speaking, though...

4.3.27

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not hear, yet he is hearing, though h...

4.3.28

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not think, yet he is thinking, though...

4.3.29

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not touch, yet he is touching, though...

4.3.30

`And when (it is said that) there (in the Sushupti) he does not know, yet he is knowing, though h...

4.3.31

`When (in waking and dreaming) there is, as it were, another, then can one see the other, then ca...

4.3.32

`An ocean is that one seer, without any duality; this is the Brahma-world, O King.' Thus did Yagn...

4.3.33

`If a man is healthy, wealthy, and lord of others, surrounded by all human enjoyments, that is th...

4.3.34

And Yagnavalkya said: `That (person), having enjoyed himself in that state of sleeping (dream), h...

4.3.35

`Now as a heavy-laden carriage moves along groaning, thus does this corporeal Self, mounted by th...

4.3.36

`And when (the body) grows weak through old age, or becomes weak through illness, at that time th...

4.3.37

`And as policemen, magistrates, equerries, and governors wait for a king who is coming back, with...

4.3.38

`And as policemen, magistrates, equerries, and governors gather round a king who is departing, th...

4.4.1

Yagnavalkya continued: `Now when that Self, having sunk into weakness, sinks, as it were, into un...

4.4.2

`"He has become one," they say, "he does not see." "He has become one," they say, "he does not sm...

4.4.3

`And as a caterpillar, after having reached the end of a blade of grass, and after having made an...

4.4.4

`And as a goldsmith, taking a piece of gold, turns it into another, newer and more beautiful shap...

4.4.5

`That Self is indeed Brahman, consisting of knowledge, mind, life, sight, hearing, earth, water, ...

4.4.6

`And here there is this verse: "To whatever object a man's own mind is attached, to that he goes ...

4.4.7

`On this there is this verse: "When all desires which once entered his heart are undone, then doe...

4.4.8

`On this there are these verses: `The small, old path stretching far away has been found by me. O...

4.4.9

`On that path they say that there is white, or blue, or yellow, or green, or red; that path was f...

4.4.10

`All who worship what is not knowledge (avidya) enter into blind darkness: those who delight in k...

4.4.11

`There are indeed those unblessed worlds, covered with blind darkness. Men who are ignorant and n...

4.4.12

`If a man understands the Self, saying, "I am He," what could he wish or desire that he should pi...

4.4.13

`Whoever has found and understood the Self that has entered into this patched-together hidingplac...

4.4.14

`While we are here, we may know this; if not, I am ignorant, and there is great destruction. Thos...

4.4.15

`If a man clearly beholds this Self as God, and as the lord of all that is and will be, then he i...

4.4.16

`He behind whom the year revolves with the days, him the gods worship as the light of lights, as ...

4.4.17

`He in whom the five beings and the ether rest, him alone I believe to be the Self, I who know, b...

4.4.18

`They who know the life of life, the eye of the eye, the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, th...