Upanishads · Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4,4.13
॥
Devanāgarī
यस्य अनुवित्तः प्रतिबुद्धः आत्मा अस्मिन् संदेह्ये गहने प्रविष्टः सः विश्वकृत् सः हि सर्वस्य कर्ता तस्य लोकः सः उ लोकः एव
Transliteration (IAST)
yasya anuvittaḥ pratibuddhaḥ ātmā asmin saṃdehye gahane praviṣṭaḥ saḥ viśvakṛt saḥ hi sarvasya kartā tasya lokaḥ saḥ u lokaḥ eva
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
यस्यyasyawhose; in whose case
अनुवित्तःanuvittaḥhas been found (anu-vitta); is obtained; is found
प्रतिबुद्धःpratibuddhaḥawakened (prati-buddha); roused; awakened
आत्माātmāthe self; the ātman
अस्मिन्asminin this; here
संदेह्येsaṃdehyein this crowded frame (saṁdehya — 'in the body-aggregate'); in the thicket of the body; in the narrow dwelling
गहनेgahanein the thicket (gahana, loc.); in the dense wood; in the wilderness
प्रविष्टःpraviṣṭaḥhaving entered (pra-viṣṭa); having stepped in; having entered
सःsaḥhe; that one
विश्वकृत्viśvakṛtthe maker of all (viśva-kṛt); the doer of everything; the all-maker
सःsaḥhe; that one
हिhiindeed; truly
सर्वस्यsarvasyaof all; of the whole
कर्ताkartāthe doer (kartṛ); the creator; the doer
तस्यtasyait; his
लोकःlokaḥthe world; dwelling
सःsaḥhe; that one
उusurely; indeed
लोकःlokaḥthe world; dwelling
एवevaindeed; only
Translation
He whose ātman has been found and awakened, having entered into this cramped thicket, is the maker of all: he is the doer of everything; his is the world — he is the world itself.
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The answering side: one whose ātman has been "found and awakened" (anuvittaḥ pratibuddhaḥ) — even though he has "entered into this cramped thicket" (gahane praviṣṭaḥ — into the jungle, the backwoods of the body!) — is viśvakṛt, the maker of all: "his is the world, he is the world itself".
Awakening does not wait for better conditions: in the same thicket of flesh where the unawakened sleep, the one who has known becomes master of creation — that same Maker of dream and waking worlds (4.3.10) who has recognised his trade. "He is the world itself" is no delusion of grandeur but the end of estrangement: the world has ceased to be a foreign land and become one's own, to the point of identity.