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Praśna Upaniṣad 5.5

PrU 5.5

यः पुनर् एतं त्रिमात्रेणोमित्य् एतेनैवाक्षरेण परं पुरुषम् अभिध्यायीत । स तेजसि सूर्ये संपन्नः । यथा पादोदरस् त्वचा विनिर्मुच्यते । एवं ह वै स पाप्मना विनिर्मुक्तः स सामभिर् उन्नीयते ब्रह्मलोकम् । स एतस्माज् जीवधनात् परापरं पुरिशयं पुरुषम् ईक्षते तद् एतौ श्लोकौ भवतः

yaḥ punar etaṃ trimātreṇomity etenaivākṣareṇa paraṃ puruṣam abhidhyāyīta | sa tejasi sūrye saṃpannaḥ | yathā pādodaras tvacā vinirmucyate | evaṃ ha vai sa pāpmanā vinirmuktaḥ sa sāmabhir unnīyate brahmalokam | sa etasmāj jīvadhanāt parāparaṃ puriśayaṃ puruṣam īkṣate tad etau ślokau bhavataḥ

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

Again, he who meditates with this syllable AUM of three Mâtrâs, on the Highest Person, he comes to light and to the sun. And as a snake is freed from its skin, so is he freed from evil. He is led up by the Sâman-verses to the Brahma-world; and from him, full of life (Hiranyagarbha, the lord of the Satya-loka), he learns to see the all-pervading, the Highest Person. And there are these two Slokas:

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Praśna Upaniṣad 5.5, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/PrU/5.5), after GRETIL, Prasna-Upanisad (Prasnopanisad) Mula text extracted from commented version Input by members of the….

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