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 2.13
प्राणस्येदं वशे सर्वं त्रिदिवे यत्प्रतिष्ठितम् ।
मातेव पुत्रान्रक्शस्व श्रीश्च प्रज्ञां च विधेहि न इति ॥ १३ ॥prāṇasyedaṃ vaśe sarvaṃ tridive yatpratiṣṭhitam |
māteva putrānrakśasva śrīśca prajñāṃ ca vidhehi na iti || 13 ||13. All this is within the control of Prana, as also what is in the third heaven. Protect us like a mother. Give us affluence and knowledge.
Shankara’s Commentary:
Com.—In short, everything of enjoyment in this world, is under the control of Prana; as also of all that which exists in the third heaven for the enjoyment of the Devas, etc., Prana alone is the lord or protector. Therefore, protect, as a mother does her sons. As all splendour pertaining to a Brahmin and Kshatriya are due to you, give us that affluence and knowledge originating in you. It has been thus determined that Prana whose greatness or glory, as being all, has thus been disclosed by the eulogy of the pranas; such as speech and the rest is the lord of the creation, the eater.
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॥ इति प्रश्नोपनिषदि द्वितीयः प्रश्नः ॥
|| iti praśnopaniṣadi dvitīyaḥ praśnaḥ ||
Here ends the Second Prasna.
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