Prajapati

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 21 Oct 2011 12:51 and updated at 21 Oct 2011 12:51

BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD NOUN

BrihadArUpa1	7 He desired, Let this body of mine be fit for a sacrifice, and let me be embodied through this (and entered it). Because the body swelled Asvat(), therefore it came to be called Asva Horse(). And because it became fit for a sacrifice, therefore the Horse sacrifice came to be known as Asvamedha. He who knows it thus indeed knows the Horse sacrifice. (Imagining himself as the Horse and) letting it remain free, he reflected (on it). After a year he sacrificed it to himself, and dispatched the (other) animals to the Devas. Therefore (priests to this day) sacrifice to Prajapati the sanctified Horse() that is dedicated to all the Devas. He who shines yonder is the Horse sacrifice; his body is the year. This fire is Arka; its limbs are these worlds. So these two (fire and the Sun) are Arka and the Horse sacrifice. These two again become the same Deva, Death. He (who knows thus) conquers further death, death cannot overtake him, it becomes his self, and he becomes one with these deities.
BrihadArUpa1	1 There were two classes of Prajapati s sons, the Devas and the Asuras. Naturally, the Devas were fewer, and the Asuras more in number. They vied with each other for (the mastery of these worlds. The Devas said, Now let us surpass the Asuras in (this) sacrifice through the Udgitha
BrihadArUpa1	14 This Prajapati Hiranyagarbha() has sixteen digits and is represented by the year. The nights (and days) are his fifteen digits, and the constant one is his sixteenth digit. He (as the Moon) is filled as well as wasted by the nights (and days). Through this sixteenth digit he permeates all these living beings on the new Moon night and rises the next morning. Therefore on this night one should not take the life of living beings, not even of a chameleon, in adoration of this deity alone.
BrihadArUpa1	15 That Prajapati who has sixteen digits and is represented by the year is indeed this man who knows as above. Wealth constitutes his fifteen digits, and the body his sixteenth digit. He is filled as well as wasted by wealth. This body stands for a nave, and wealth is the felloe. Therefore if a man loses everything, but he himself lives, people say that he has only lost his outfit.
BrihadArUpa1	21 Now a consideration of the vow Prajapati projected the organs. These, on being projected, quarrelled with one another. The organ of speech took a vow, I will go on speaking The eye I will see The ear I will hear And so did the other organs according to their functions. Death captured them in the form of fatigue it overtook the, and having overtaken them it controlled them. Therefore the organ of speech invariably gets tired, and so do the eye and the ear. But death did not overtake this vital force in the body. The organs resolved to know it. This is the greatest among us that, when it moves or does not move, feels no pain nor is injured. Well, let us all be of its form. They all assumed its form. Therefore they are called by this name of Prana That family in which a man is born who knows as above, is indeed named after him. And he who competes with one who knows as above shrivels, and after shrivelling dies at the end. This is with reference to the body.
BrihadArUpa3	2 Yajnavalkya said, these are but the manifestation of them, but there are only thirty three Devas. Which are those thirty three The eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras and the twelve Adityas these are thirty one and Indra and Prajapati make up the thirty three
BrihadArUpa3	6 Which is Indra, and which is Prajapati The cloud itself is Indra, and the sacrifice is Prajapati Which is the cloud Thunder (strength). Which is the sacrifice Animals
BrihadArUpa3	17 He who knows that being whose abode is the seed, whose instrument of vision is the intellect, whose light is the Manas, and who is the ultimate resort of the entire body and organs, knows truly, O Yajnavalkya I do know that being of whom you speak who is the ultimate resort of the entire body and organs. It is the very being who is identified with the son. Go on, Sakalya Who is his deity Prajapati (the father) said he.
BrihadArUpa4	7 Let me hear whatever any one may have told you Vidagdha, the son of Sakala, has told me that the heart (mind, here, Prajapati is Brahman As one who has a mother, a father and a teacher should say, so has the son of Sakala said this that the heart is Brahman. For what can a person have without the heart But did he tell you about its abode (body) and support No, he did not This Brahman is only one footed, O Emperor Then you tell us, Yajnavalkya The heart is its abode, and the ether (the Undifferentiated) its support. It should be meditated upon as stability What is stability, Yajnavalkya The heart itself, O Emperor said Yajnavalkya; the heart, O Emperor, is the abode of all beings, and the heart, O Emperor, is the support of all beings; on the heart, O Emperor, all beings rest; the heart, O Emperor, is the Supreme Brahman. The heart never leaves him who, knowing thus, meditates upon it; all beings eagerly come to him; and being a Deva, he attains the Devas I give you a thousand cows with a bull like an elephant said Emperor Janaka. Yajnavalkya replied, My father was of opinion that one should not accept (wealth) from a disciple without fully instructing him
BrihadArUpa4	33 He who is perfect of physique and prosperous among men, the ruler of others, and most lavishly supplied with all human enjoyments, represents greatest joy among men. This human joy multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy for the Pitris who have won that world of theirs. The joy of these Pitris who have won that world multiplied a hundred times makes one unit joy in the world of the Gandharvas. This joy in the world of the Gandharvas multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy for the Devas by action those who have attained their godhead by their actions. This joy of the Devas by action multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy for the Devas by birth, as also of one who is versed in the Vedas, sinless and free from desire. This joy of the Devas by birth multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy in the world of Prajapati Viraj(), as well as one who is versed in the Vedas, sinless and free from desire. This joy in the world of Prajapati multiplied a hundred times makes one unit of joy in the world of Brahman Hiranyagarbha(), as well as of one who is versed in the Vedas, sinless and free from desire. This indeed is the supreme bliss. This is the state of Brahman, O Emperor, said Yajnavalkya. I give you a thousand (cows), sir. Please instruct me further about liberation itself At this Yajnavalkya was afraid that the intelligent Emperor was constraining him to finish with all his conclusions.
BrihadArUpa5	1 Three classes of Prajapati s sons lived a life of continence with their father, Prajapati Viraj() the Devas, men and Asuras. The Devas, on the completion of their term, said, Please instruct us He told them the syllable Da (and asked), have you understood (They) said, We have. You tell us Control yourselves (He) said, Yes, you have understood
BrihadArUpa5	1 This is Prajapati this heart (intellect). It is Brahman, it is everything. Hridaya (heart) has three syllables. Hr is one syllable. To him who knows as above, his own people and others bring (presents). Da is another syllable. To him who knows as above, his own people and others give (their powers). Ya is another syllable. He who knows as above goes to Heaven.
BrihadArUpa5	1 This (universe) was but water (liquid oblations connected with sacrifices) in the beginning. That water produced Satya. Satya is Brahman. Brahman (produced) Prajapati, and Prajapati the Devas. Those Devas meditate upon Satya alone. This (name) Satya consists of three syllables Sacrifice is one syllable, Ti is another syllable, and "Ya is the third syllable. The first and last syllables are truth. In the middle is untruth. This untruth is enclosed on either side by truth. Hence() there is a preponderance of truth. One who knows as above is never hurt by untruth.
BrihadArUpa5	1 The face (nature) of Satya Brahman() is hidden (as it were) with a golden vessel. O Pusan (nourisher of the world the Sun), remove it, so that I, whose reality is Satya, may see (the face). O Pusan, O solitary Rishi (seer or traveller), O Yama (controller), O Surya (sun), O son of Prajapati God( or Hiranyagarbha), take away thy rays, curb thy brightness. I wish to behold that most benignant form of thine. I myself am that person; and I am immortal. (When my body falls) may my vital force return to the air (cosmic force), and this body too, reduced to ashes, (go to the Earth)! O fire, who art the syllable Aum O Deity of deliberations, recollect, recollect all that I have done, O Deity of deliberations, recollect, recollect all that I have done. O Agni, lead us along the good way towards our riches (deserts). O Lord, thou knowest everybody s mental states; remove the wily evil from us. We utter repeated salutations to thee.
BrihadArUpa6	3 Offering an oblation in the fire saying, Svaha to fire he drips the remnant adhering to the ladle into the paste. Offering and oblation saying, Svaha to the Moon, he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the Earth he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the Sky he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to Heaven he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the Earth, Sky and Heaven he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the Brahmana he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the Kshatriya he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the past he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the future he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to the whole he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to all he drips, etc. Offering an oblation saying, Svaha to Prajapati he drips, etc.
BrihadArUpa6	2 Prajapati thought, Well, let me make an abode for it and he created Woman.
BrihadArUpa6	4 The same up to the son of Samjivi. The son of Samjivi from Mandukayani. Mandukayani from Mandavya. Mandavya from Kautsa. Kautsa from Mahitthi. He from Vamakaksayana. He from Sandilya. Sandilya from Vatsy. Vatsya from Kusri. Kusri from Yajnavacas, the son of Rajastamba. He from Tura, the son of Kavasi. He from Prajapati Hiranyagarbha(). Prajapati through his relation to Brahman (the Vedas). Brahman is self born. Salutation to Brahman.

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