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 2.6
अरा इव रथनाभौ प्राणे सर्वं प्रतिष्ठितम् ।
ऋचो यजूँषि सामानि यज्ञः क्शत्रं ब्रह्म च ॥ ६ ॥arā iva rathanābhau prāṇe sarvaṃ pratiṣṭhitam |
ṛco yajūm̐ṣi sāmāni yajñaḥ kśatraṃ brahma ca || 6 ||6. As spokes in the nave of a wheel, so all is centred in Prana. Riks, Yajur, Samams, sacrifices, Kshatriyas and Brahmins.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—As spokes in the nave of a wheel, all from sraddha (faith) down to name is centred in Prana, while they endure; so also Rik, Yajur and Sama Vedas, the three kinds of mantras, and what is accomplished by them, i.e., the sacrifice, the Kshatriyas, pro tectors of all and the Brahmins competent to perform sacrifices and other karma. Prana is all this.