THE TEACHER AND THE TAUGHT:-

Chapter:1.

Slokam:-1.

Kenesitam  patati  presitam  manah

kena  pranah  prathamah  praiti  yuktah

kenesitam  vacamimam  vadanti

caksuh  srotram  ka  u Devo  yunakti.

Disciple : By whom willed and directed does the mind light upon its objects? 

Commanded by whom does the main Vital Air (Prana) proceed to function?

By whose will do men utter speech?

What intelligence directs the eyes and ears ( towards their respective objects)?

The entire Upanisad  is an conversational style. The student of life, after living his span of experiences in the world of sense-enjoyments, has come to feel an impatience with the finite joys. He has rejected the world as a field of meaningless strife and the day-to-day material life as an endless race to catch one's own shadow. The Pupil thus enquires, his Guru (Teacher) by way of questions.