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 3.11
य एवं विद्वान्प्राणं वेद । न हास्य प्रजा हीयतेऽमृतो भवति तदेष श्लोकः ॥ ११ ॥
ya evaṃ vidvānprāṇaṃ veda | na hāsya prajā hīyate'mṛto bhavati tadeṣa ślokaḥ || 11 ||
11. The learned man who knows Prana thus—of his offspring there is break and he becomes immortal; there is the following verse.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—Of the learned man who knows Prana thus i.e., with these attributes already described, about his birth, etc., the following fruits, both here and hereafter, are pointed out. The offspring, i.e., the son, the grandson, etc., of this knower, do not suffer break in continuity, and when the body falls having become one with Prana, he becomes immortal (in a relative sense). The following verse (sloka) briefly explains this purport.