Prashna Upanishad with Shankara’s 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 1.3
अथ कबन्धी कत्यायन उपेत्य पप्रच्छ ।
भगवन् कुते ह वा इमाः प्रजाः प्रजायन्त इति ॥ ३ ॥atha kabandhī katyāyana upetya papraccha |
bhagavan kute ha vā imāḥ prajāḥ prajāyanta iti || 3 ||3. Then Kabandhi, having approached Katyayana asked: worthy master, whence are these creatures born?
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—Then, i.e., after a year, Kabandhi having approached Katyayana asked ‘Oh, worthy master, whence do these creatures, Brahmins and the rest, arise?’ This question is intended to elicit what results are attained and what path is gone through, by combining Aparavidya and Karma.