Prashna Upanishad – I – Spiritual paths of the Moon and Sun – 5   «   »

Prashna Upanishad – I – Spiritual paths of the Moon and Sun – 5   «   »

आदित्यो ह वै प्राणो रयिरेव चन्द्रमा रयिर्वा एतत्
सर्वं यन्मूर्तं चामूर्तं च तस्मान्मूर्तिरेव रयिः ॥ १.५॥
ādityo ha vai prāṇo rayireva candramā rayirvā etat
sarvaṃ yanmūrtaṃ cāmūrtaṃ ca tasmānmūrtireva rayiḥ .. 1.5..
Translation by Swami Sivananda
5 The sun is, indeed, prana, life; the moon is rayi, food. Food is, indeed, all this what has form and what is formless. Therefore everything having form is, indeed, food. 

Translation by Max Mueller
5. The sun is spirit, matter is the moon. All this, what has body and what has no body, is matter, and therefore body indeed is matter.

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

Com.—Here the sun is prâna, the eater, the fire the moon is the food, the moon is, indeed, food. This pair, the eater and the food really one, different aspects of the lord of creatures. The distinction is really one of secondary and primary. How? all this gross and subtle, is, indeed, in one aspect food, both having form and formless, the eater and the food. Therefore, when a dinner is made, i.e., what has form and what has not; (the former) is food being eaten by what is formless.

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

Prashna Upanishad – 5 – Prashna-1-5-ādityo ha – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Meaning and Commentary by Adi Shankaracharya (Sankara Bhashya) – Prashna-1-5