[Advaita-l] Aitareya Upanishad 2.1.1 Bhashya

Venkatraghavan S agnimile at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 01:48:04 EST 2018


Namaste,
You can see shankarAchArya's commentary to the word दुर्निष्प्रपतरं in the
panchAgni vidyA section, Chandogya 5.10.6.

Regards
Venkatraghavan


On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, 03:34 Durga Prasad Janaswamy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org wrote:

> Hari Om,
>
> Aitareya Upanishad
> 2.1.1 Bhashya
> अयमेवाविद्याकामकर्माभिमानवान् यज्ञादिकर्म कृत्वा अस्माल्लोकाद्धूमादिक्रमेण
> चन्द्रमसं प्राप्य क्षीणकर्मा वृष्ट्यादिक्रमेण इमं लोकं प्राप्य अन्नभूतः
> पुरुषाग्नौ हुतः । तस्मिन्पुरुषे ह वै अयं संसारी रसादिक्रमेण आदितः प्रथमतः
> रेतोरूपेण गर्भो भवतीति एतदाह — यदेतत्पुरुषे रेतः, तेन रूपेणेति ।
>
> "Then he falls on the earth as rain and enters into cereals, plants or
> other edibles. With the food, he goes into a human body and becomes semen,
> which is the essence of the food."
>
> I was told that there are many obstacles from the point of reaching earth
> as rain and entering into human body with food. And these obstacles are
> discussed in detail at some other place.
>
> Any references where these obstacles are discussed in detail?
>
> Thanks and regards
> -- durga prasad
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