Upaniṣads · Praśna 6
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Praśna 6.1
अथ हैनं सुकेशा भारद्वाजः पप्रच्छ ।
भगवन्
हिरण्यनाभः
कौसल्यो राजपुत्रो मामुपेत्यैतं प्रश्नमपृच्छत ।
षोडशकलं
भारद्वाज पुरुषं वेत्थ ।
तमहं कुमारम्ब्रुवं नाहमिमं
वेद ।
यध्यहमिममवेदिषं कथं ते नावक्ष्यमिति ।
समूलो वा
एष परिशुष्यति योऽनृतमभिवदति तस्मान्नार्हम्यनृतं वक्तुम् ।
स तूष्णीं रथमारुह्य प्रवव्राज ।
तं त्वा पृच्छामि क्वासौ
पुरुष इति ॥ ६.१ ॥
Then Sukeśā Bhāradvāja asked him: 'Venerable sir, Hiraṇyanābha, the prince of Kosala, came to me and asked this question: O Bhāradvāja, do you know the Person of sixteen parts? I said to that youth: I do not know him. If I had known him, why would I not have told you? He who speaks falsehood withers away with his very root; therefore it is not fitting for me to speak falsehood. He silently mounted his chariot and departed. Now I ask you: where is that Person?'
Praśna 6.2
तस्मै स होवाच ।
इहैइवान्तःशरीरे सोभ्य स पुरुषो
यस्मिन्नताः षोडशकलाः प्रभवन्तीति ॥ ६.२ ॥
He said to him: Here, my gentle friend, within this very body is that Puruṣa from whom these sixteen kalās arise.
Praśna 6.3
स ईक्षाचक्रे ।
कस्मिन्नहमुत्क्रान्त उत्क्रान्तो भविष्यामि
कस्मिन्वा प्रतिष्टिते प्रतिष्टस्यामीति ॥ ६.३ ॥
He reflected: With what departing shall I depart? Upon what being established shall I be established?
Praśna 6.4
स प्राणमसृजत प्राणाच्छ्रद्धां खं वायुर्ज्योतिरापः
पृथिवीन्द्रियं मनः ।
अन्नमन्नाद्वीर्यं तपो मन्त्राः कर्म
लोका
लोकेषु च नाम च ॥ ६.४ ॥
He created breath; from breath came faith, space, air, light, water, earth, the senses, and mind. Food; from food came vigour, austerity, the sacred formulas, action, the worlds, and in the worlds, name.
Praśna 6.5
स यथेमा नध्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रायणाः समुद्रं
प्राप्यास्तं
गच्छन्ति भिध्येते तासां नामरुपे समुद्र इत्येवं प्रोच्यते ।
एवमेवास्य परिद्रष्टुरिमाः षोडशकलाः पुरुषायणाः
पुरुषं
प्राप्यास्तं गच्छन्ति भिध्येते चासां नामरुपे पुरुष इत्येवं
प्रोच्यते स एषोऽकलोऽमृतो भवति तदेष श्लोकः ॥ ६.५ ॥
As these flowing rivers, tending toward the ocean, reach the ocean and go down, their names and forms are broken, and it is called merely 'ocean'; so too these sixteen parts of this seer, tending toward the Person, reach the Person and go down, their names and forms are broken, and he is called merely 'Person.' He becomes partless and immortal. On this there is this verse.
Praśna 6.6
अरा इव रथनाभौ कला यस्मिन्प्रतिष्टिताः ।
तं वेध्यं पुरुषं वेद यथ मा वो मृत्युः परिव्यथा इति ॥ ६.६ ॥
As spokes are fixed in the hub of a chariot wheel, so are all the kalās fixed in him. Know that person to be pierced, so that death may not distress you.
Praśna 6.7
तान् होवाचैतावदेवाहमेतत् परं ब्रह्म वेद ।
नातः
परमस्तीति ॥ ६.७ ॥
He said to them: "This much only do I know as the supreme brahman; there is nothing higher than this."
Praśna 6.8
ते तमर्चयन्तस्त्वं हि नः पिता योऽस्माकमविध्यायाः
परं परं तारयसीति ।
नमः परमऋषिभ्यो नमः
परमऋषिभ्यः ॥ ६.८ ॥
Honoring him, they said: "You are our father, who carries us across beyond ignorance, beyond the beyond." Homage to the supreme seers. Homage to the supreme seers.