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 5.4
अथ यदि द्विमात्रेण मनसि संपध्यते सोऽन्तरिक्शं यजुर्भिरुन्नीयते सोमलोकम् । स सोमलोके विभुतिमनुभूय पुनरावर्तते ॥ ४ ॥
atha yadi dvimātreṇa manasi saṃpadhyate so'ntarikśaṃ yajurbhirunnīyate somalokam | sa somaloke vibhutimanubhūya punarāvartate || 4 ||
4. But if he meditates on its second matra only, he becomes one with mind. He is conducted into intermediate space—the world of the moon—by yajus. Having enjoyed greatness there, he returns again.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—Now again, if he meditates on the syllable ‘Om,’ by its second matra, he becomes one with the moon, of the nature of dreams, in the form of Yajur Veda, worthy of meditation. Thus become immortal] is taken by the yajus representing the second matra to the lunar world, the support of antariksha,. intermediate space, and representing the second matra. The meaning is that he is taken by the yajus to be born in the lunar world. Haying there, in the lunar world, enjoyed greatness returns again to the world of men.