Prashna Upanishad

The Prashna Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads.

Quotes

• This [Lifebreath] burns as fire—this as sun;

This as rain and Maghavan, this as wind;

This as earth and the divine substance;

As real and not-real;

And what is immortal.

• 2.5

• The lifebreath here arises from the self (atman).

As this shadow here, upon a man,

So this mind is stretched upon lifebreath;

And it enters by a path created by the mind.

• 3.3

• The origin, entrance, position,

the fivefold expansion of lifebreath;

how it relates to what's in the body—

A man who knows this becomes immortal.

• 3.12

• That on which rest the breaths and beings,

and, with all the deities, the intelligent self;

Whoever knows that, my friend, as the imperishable;

He, knowing the whole world,

has entered the whole world indeed.

• 4.11