✅ Kena Upanishad Chapter I

 The disciple asked:

Om.

By whose will directed does the mind proceed to its object?

At whose command does the prana, the foremost, do its duty?

At whose will do men utter speech?

Who is the god that directs the eyes and ears?

The teacher replied:

It is the Ear of the ear,

the Mind of the mind,

the Speech of speech,

the Life of life and

the Eye of the eye.

Having detached the Self from the sense—organs and renounced the world, the Wise attain to Immortality.

The eye does not go thither,

nor speech, nor the mind.

We do not know It;

we do not understand

how anyone can teach It.

It is different from the known;

It is above the unknown.

Thus we have heard from the preceptors of old who taught It to us.

That which cannot be expressed by speech, but by which speech is expressed—

That alone know as Brahman and not that

which people here worship.

That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which,

they say, the mind is apprehended—

That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived—

That alone know as Brahman and not that

which people here worship.

That which cannot he heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived—

That alone know as Brahman and not

that which people here worship.

That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object—That alone know as Brahman and not

that which people here worship.