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 1.7
स एष वैश्वानरो विश्वरुपः प्राणोऽग्निरुदयते । तदेतदृचाभ्युक्तम् ॥ ७ ॥
sa eṣa vaiśvānaro viśvarupaḥ prāṇo'gnirudayate | tadetadṛcābhyuktam || 7 ||
7. This is he, the totality of all living beings, assuming every form, life and fire, (who) rises (every day). This is told by the Rik.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—This is he, the eater, life, the atman of all, Assuming all forms, being the atman of the universe, prana and fire. This is the eater, who rises every day making all cardinal points his own. This, now explained, has also been told by the mantra also.