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 2.5
एषोऽग्निस्तपत्येष सूर्य एष पर्जन्यो मघवानेष वायुरेष पृथिवी रयिर्देवः सदसच्चामृतं च यत् ॥ ५ ॥
eṣo'gnistapatyeṣa sūrya eṣa parjanyo maghavāneṣa vāyureṣa pṛthivī rayirdevaḥ sadasaccāmṛtaṃ ca yat || 5 ||
5. As fire, this burns; this, sun; this, cloud; this, Indra; this, wind; this, earth; moon, Deva and what has form, what is formless and what is immortal nectar.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—How? This Prana being fire, burns or flames; so this being sun, shines; so this being cloud, rains. Again this being Indra, protects the creatures and destroys, Asuras and Rakshasas. This is wind in its different forms, avaha, pravaha, etc. Again this is Deva, earth (supporter of all) and moon (nourisher of all). This is all that has form and all that is formless. This is also amrita which is the stay of all Devas. In short,