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Upanishads · Saubhāgyalakṣmī 2.11
॥
Devanāgarī
अन्तेऽनन्तं समारोप्य खण्डेऽखण्डं समर्पयन् । भूमानं प्रकृतिं ध्यात्वा कृतकृत्योऽमृतो भवेत्
Transliteration (IAST)
ante'nantaṃ samāropya khaṇḍe'khaṇḍaṃ samarpayan | bhūmānaṃ prakṛtiṃ dhyātvā kṛtakṛtyo'mṛto bhavet
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
अन्ते अनन्तं समारोप्यante anantaṃ samāropyahaving placed the infinite upon the end
खण्डे अ-खण्डं समर्पयन्khaṇḍe a-khaṇḍaṃ samarpayanand giving over the undivided to the divided
भूमानं प्रकृतिं ध्यात्वाbhūmānaṃ prakṛtiṃ dhyātvāhaving meditated on fullness and nature
कृत-कृत्यः अ-मृतः भवेत्kṛta-kṛtyaḥ a-mṛtaḥ bhavethaving done what was to be done, he becomes immortal
Translation
"Having placed the infinite upon the end, and giving over the undivided to the divided, having meditated on fullness and nature — having done what was to be done, [the yogī] becomes immortal."
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It is worth noting two verbs, for both are verbs of giving-over. Samāropya — "having placed [upon]," from sam-ā-ruh; this is said of what is set on top of something. Samarpayan — "giving over," from sam-ṛp; and this is the very word by which offering is denoted in Vaiṣṇava usage: samarpayāmi, "I offer," is said when presenting food.
That is, in a verse describing the culmination of non-dual ascent, two verbs are used that require two: one places something upon something, one gives something over to someone. We have noted such slips in a dozen books; here it stands at the very concluding passage. Let us add the word bhūman, "fullness," standing here beside prakṛti.
Bhūman is a word of the Chāndogya (7.23), and there it is famously defined: yo vai bhūmā tat sukham, nālpe sukham asti, "fullness alone is happiness; in the small there is no happiness." And further Sanatkumāra explains: yatra nānyat paśyati nānyac chṛṇoti nānyad vijānāti sa bhūmā, "where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, knows nothing else — that is fullness." The Vaiṣṇava reading of this passage was cited when reading the Chāndogya, and let us repeat it briefly: "sees nothing else" is said not because there is nothing to see, but because one is not distracted; and every person in love, in a crowd, sees nothing else, though the crowd has not vanished.