Prashna Upanishad — Chapter 6: Sukesha's Question: The Person of Sixteen Parts
9 verses
Verse 1
Then Sukesha Bharadvaja asked: Lord, prince Hiranyanaabha Kausalya came to me and asked: Bharadvaja, do you know the Person of sixteen parts? I said …
Verse 2
To him he said: Here within this very body, dear one, is that Person from whom these sixteen parts arise.
Verse 3
He reflected: On whose departure shall I depart? On whose staying shall I stay?
Verse 4
He created Prana; from Prana faith, space, air, fire, water, earth, the senses, mind; from mind food; from food vigor, austerity, mantras, rites, the…
Verse 5
Just as these flowing rivers, bound for the ocean, having reached the ocean, disappear — their name and form are dissolved, and it is called simply '…