Upanishads · Chāndogya 3,5.3
॥
Devanāgarī
तत् व्यक्षरत् तत् आदित्यम् अभितः अश्रयत् तत् वै एतत् यत् एतत् आदित्यस्य मध्ये क्षोभते इव
Transliteration (IAST)
tat vyakṣarat tat ādityam abhitaḥ aśrayat tat vai etat yat etat ādityasya madhye kṣobhate iva
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
तत्tatthat; this
व्यक्षरत्vyakṣaratit flowed out; it was exuded
तत्tatthat; this
आदित्यम्ādityamthe sun; Āditya
अभितःabhitaḥround about; from every side
अश्रयत्aśrayatit resorted; it settled
तत्tatthat; this
वैvaiverily; indeed
एतत्etatthis; all this
यत्yatwhich; that which
एतत्etatthis; all this
आदित्यस्यādityasyaof the sun; of Āditya
मध्येmadhyein the centre (madhya); in the middle; in the core
क्षोभतेkṣobhateit stirs (from √kṣubh); wavers; quivers
इवivaas it were; as though
Translation
It flowed forth and settled about the sun: and that is what seems to quiver in the middle of the sun.
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The fifth load has settled in the core: yad etad ādityasya madhye kṣobhate iva — "that which seems to quiver in the middle of the sun": the honey of Brahman is not a colour on the circumference but a living tremor at the luminary's very centre!
kṣobhate iva — "as if it stirs": in the sun's core the contemplatives saw not a static point but a living ripple, a trembling of super-light: there where the Muṇḍaka set a golden vessel and Chāndogya 1.6 the golden Puruṣa, the science of honey places the nectar of Himself: the heart of the sun is the quivering honey of Brahman. The four Vedas at the edges, the Secret at the centre: the very architecture of the hive professes a hierarchy of revelation.