Upanishads · Chāndogya 3,11.3
॥
Devanāgarī
न ह वै अस्माइ उदेति न निम्लोचति सकृत् दिवा ह एव अस्माइ भवति यः एताम् एवम् ब्रह्मोपनिषदम् वेद
Transliteration (IAST)
na ha vai asmāi udeti na nimlocati sakṛt divā ha eva asmāi bhavati yaḥ etām evam brahmopaniṣadam veda
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
नnanot; no
हhaindeed; surely
वैvaiverily; indeed
अस्माइasmāifor him; to him
उदेतिudetirises; ascends
नnanot; no
निम्लोचतिnimlocatiit sets; it disappears
सकृत्sakṛtonce [and for all] (sakṛt — 'one time'); once; once for ever
दिवाdivāthe day (divā); the daylight; by day
हhaindeed; surely
एवevaindeed; surely
अस्माइasmāifor him; to him
भवतिbhavatirevered lady; madam
यःyaḥwho; the one who
एताम्etāmthis; this very one
एवम्evamthus; in this way
ब्रह्मोपनिषदम्brahmopaniṣadamthe secret teaching about Brahman; the Brahma-upaniṣad
वेदvedaknows; understands
Translation
For him indeed [the sun] does not rise or set — once [and for all] there is day for him — who thus knows this upaniṣad of Brahman.
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The promise of an unsetting day: na ha vā asmā udeti na nimlocati — "for him it does not rise or set": sakṛd divā haivāsmai bhavati — "once [and for all] it is day for him": sakṛt — "once" — one unending noon!
For one who knows the upaniṣad of Brahman the very alternation of light and dark is abolished: his day is not followed by night — not because the earthly sun changes its course for him, but because he lives in the presence of the Standing one: the knower's inner luminary takes no part in sunsets. The eternal day is an Upaniṣadic name for salvation: a life out of which the night of ignorance, fear and death has been taken away (it echoes the "sorrowless" beyond the twenty-second syllable — 2.10!): a light once risen in a knower's heart no longer knows how to set.