The Upanishads - Opening

In the first mantra of the first chapter the student asks the teacher: "Directed by whom does the mind think, impelled by whom does Prana, or vital force, function, and willed by which god does speech utter, eyes see and the ears hear?"

To Adi Shankaracharya

The greatest teacher of the Vedanta

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