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 2.10
यदा त्वमभिवर्षस्यथेमाःप्राण ते प्रजाः ।
आनन्दरूपास्तिष्ठन्ति कामायान्नं भविष्यतीति ॥ १० ॥yadā tvamabhivarṣasyathemāḥprāṇa te prajāḥ |
ānandarūpāstiṣṭhanti kāmāyānnaṃ bhaviṣyatīti || 10 ||10. When you rain, all round; then Oh Prana, these, your creatures, sit delighted thinking there will be food at their desire.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—When you in the form of clouds, rain all round; then, having obtained food, these creatures put forth activity. Or, Oh Prana, these, your creatures, being yourself and nourished by your food, become delighted with the mere sight of the rain you pour, thinking there will be food at their desire.