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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 6 · Brāhmaṇa 2

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 6.2.2

वेत्थ यथेमाः प्रजाः प्रयत्यो विप्रतिपद्यन्ता३ इति ।
नेति होवाच ।
वेत्थो यथेमं लोकं पुनर् आपद्यन्ता३ इति ।
नेति हैवोवाच ।
वेत्थो यथासौ लोक एवं बहुभिः पुनः पुनः प्रयद्भिर् न संपूर्यता३ इति ।
नेति हैवोवाच ।
वेत्थो यतिथ्याम् आहुत्यां हुतायाम् आपः पुरुषवाचो भूत्वा समुत्थाय वदन्ती३ इति ।
नेति हैवोवाच ।
वेत्थो देवयानस्य वा पथः प्रतिपदं पितृयाणस्य वा ।
यत् कृत्वा देवयानं वा पन्थानं प्रतिपद्यन्ते पितृयाणं वा ।
अपि हि न ऋषेर् वचः श्रुतं --
द्वे सृती अशृणवं पितॄणाम् अहं देवानाम् उत मर्त्यानाम् ।
ताभ्याम् इदं विश्वम् एजत् समेति यद् अन्तरा पितरं मातरं चेति ।
नाहम् अत एकं चन वेदेति होवाच ॥

vettha yathemāḥ prajāḥ prayatyo vipratipadyantā3 iti ।
neti hovāca ।
vettho yathemaṃ lokaṃ punar āpadyantā3 iti ।
neti haivovāca ।
vettho yathāsau loka evaṃ bahubhiḥ punaḥ punaḥ prayadbhir na saṃpūryatā3 iti ।
neti haivovāca ।
vettho yatithyām āhutyāṃ hutāyām āpaḥ puruṣavāco bhūtvā samutthāya vadantī3 iti ।
neti haivovāca ।
vettho devayānasya vā pathaḥ pratipadaṃ pitṛyāṇasya vā ।
yat kṛtvā devayānaṃ vā panthānaṃ pratipadyante pitṛyāṇaṃ vā ।
api hi na ṛṣer vacaḥ śrutaṃ --
dve sṛtī aśṛṇavaṃ pitṝṇām ahaṃ devānām uta martyānām ।
tābhyām idaṃ viśvam ejat sameti yad antarā pitaraṃ mātaraṃ ceti ।
nāham ata ekaṃ cana vedeti hovāca ॥

The king said: 'Do you know how men, when they depart from here, separate from each other?' 'No,' he replied. 'Do you know how they come back to this world?' 'No,' he replied. 'Do you know how that world does never become full with the many who again and again depart thither?' 'No,' he replied. 'Do you know at the offering of which libation the waters become endowed with a human voice and rise and speak?' 'No,' he replied. 'Do you know the access to the path leading to the Devas and to the path leading to the Fathers, i.e. by what deeds men gain access to the path leading to the Devas or to that leading to the Fathers? For we have heard even the saying of a Rishi: "I heard of two paths for men, one leading to the Fathers, the other leading to the Devas. On those paths all that lives moves on, whatever there is between father (sky) and mother (earth)."' Svetaketu said: 'I do not know even one of all these questions.'

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 15 (1884)

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