Kena Upanishad / Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 18 · Translations and Commentaries Published by Sri Aurobindo

The Kena Upanishad: Commentary V: The Supreme Word

pp. 29–33

The Upanishad, reversing the usual order of our logical thought which would put Mind and Sense first or Life first and Speech last as a subordinate function, begins its negative description of Brahman with an explanation of the very striking phrase, Speech of our speech. And we can see that it means a Speech beyond ours, an absolute expression of which human language is only a shadow and as if an artificial counterfeit. What idea underlies this phrase of the Upanishad and this precedence given to the faculty of speech?

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