Upanishads · Muṇḍaka 2.2.8
॥
Devanāgarī
भिद्यते हृदयग्रन्थिः छिद्यन्ते सर्वसंशयाः ।
क्षीयन्ते च अस्य कर्माणि तस्मिन् दृष्टे परावरे ॥
Transliteration (IAST)
bhidyate hṛdayagranthiḥ chidyante sarvasaṃśayāḥ |
kṣīyante ca asya karmāṇi tasmin dṛṣṭe parāvare ||
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
भिद्यतेbhidyateis cut open (from √bhid); is severed; is broken through
हृदयग्रन्थिःhṛdayagranthiḥthe knot of the heart (hṛdaya-granthi); the heart's tangle; the knot [of egoity] in the heart
छिद्यन्तेchidyanteare resolved (from √chid — 'to cut off'); are cut through; fall away
सर्वसंशयाःsarvasaṃśayāḥall doubts (sarva-saṁśaya); doubts of every kind; all waverings
क्षीयन्तेkṣīyanteare exhausted (from √kṣi); run dry; burn out
चcaand; as well as
अस्यasyait; his
कर्माणिkarmāṇithe karmas; actions and their consequences
तस्मिन्tasminwhen He; in Him
दृष्टेdṛṣṭeis seen; is beheld
परावरेparāvarethe higher-and-lower (para-avara); the transcendent and the immanent; the supreme and the manifest
Translation
The knot of the heart is cut asunder, all doubts are resolved, his karmas are exhausted — when He is seen, the higher-and-lower.
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A threefold fruit of vision — three liberations at once. bhidyate hṛdaya-granthiḥ — "the knot of the heart is cut": that tangle of false identification ("I am the body, mine is the world") which holds all the pain of existence (the Kaṭha 6.15 promised: "when all the knots are cut, the mortal becomes immortal"). chidyante sarva-saṁśayāḥ — "all doubts are resolved": not one by one, by arguments, but all at once, by seeing: doubts fed on the non-seeing of the Ground; for one who has seen the Ground there is nothing left to doubt about fundamentals. kṣīyante cāsya karmāṇi — "and his karmas are exhausted": the stock of unspent consequences burns out: the seeds of deeds, deprived of the soil of egoity, do not sprout (Gītā 4.37: "the fire of knowledge turns all karmas to ashes").
tasmin dṛṣṭe parāvare — "when He is seen, the higher-and-lower": dṛṣṭe — seen! — not "understood", not "proved": the knot is cut by vision alone. And He is seen as parāvara — "higher-and-lower" (the very word used of the science handed down in 1.1.2): to behold Him is to behold the whole vertical: the transcendent and the immanent, Him in the heart and Him above the worlds.
The order of the fruits is perfect: first the heart (the knot), then the mind (the doubts), then destiny (the karmas): the healing goes from the depth outward. The world has not changed — the prisoner has been untied; and from that moment everything else is no longer a journey but a going home along an open road.