Prashna Upanishad – I – Spiritual paths of the Moon and Sun – 6   «   »

Prashna Upanishad – I – Spiritual paths of the Moon and Sun – 6   «   »

अथादित्य उदयन्यत्प्राचीं दिशं प्रविशति तेन प्राच्यान् प्राणान्
रश्मिषु सन्निधत्ते । यद्दक्षिणां यत् प्रतीचीं यदुदीचीं यदधो
यदूर्ध्वं यदन्तरा दिशो यत् सर्वं प्रकाशयति तेन सर्वान् प्राणान्
रश्मिषु सन्निधत्ते ॥ १.६॥
athāditya udayanyatprācīṃ diśaṃ praviśati tena prācyān prāṇān
raśmiṣu sannidhatte . yaddakṣiṇāṃ yat pratīcīṃ yadudīcīṃ yadadho
yadūrdhvaṃ yadantarā diśo yat sarvaṃ prakāśayati tena sarvān prāṇān
raśmiṣu sannidhatte .. 1.6..
Translation by Swami Sivananda
6 Now the sun, when it rises, enters the eastern quarter and thereby enfolds the living beings of the east in its rays. And when it illuminates the southern, the western, the northern, the lower, the upper and the intermediate quarters when it illuminates everything it thus enfolds all living beings in its rays.

Translation by Max Mueller
6. Now Âditya, the sun, when he rises, goes toward the East, and thus receives the Eastern spirits into his rays. And when he illuminates the South, the West, the North, the Zenith, the Nadir, the intermediate quarters, and everything, he thus receives all spirits into his rays.

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Sri Shankara’s Commentary (Bhashya) translated by S. Sitarama Sastri

Com.—Similarly, though formless the prâna, i.e., the eater, is all, and food also is prâna; how? Now the sun rising, i.e., becoming perceivable by the eyes of living beings, lights up the east with his light; by thus pervading all with his light makes all the lives in the east one with his own self, all living beings being pervaded by his all-pervading rays of light; similarly also, when he lights the south, the west, the north, the nadir, the zenith, the inter-space, the cardinal points and those between them, he bathes all lives in all those directions in his all-pervading light.

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Various resources on the Prashnopanishad
Upanishad Series – Kena Upanishad Commentary by Swami Chinmayananda

Prashna Upanishad – 6 – Prashna-1-6-athāditya – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Meaning and Commentary by Adi Shankaracharya (Sankara Bhashya) – Prashna-1-6