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īśāvāsyabṛhadāraṇyajābālahaṃsaparamahaṃsasubālamantrikānirālambatriśikhībrāhmaṇamaṇḍalabrāhmaṇādvayatārakapaiṅgalabhikṣuturīyātītādhyātmatārasārayājñavalkyaśāṭyāyanīmuktikānāṃ śuklayajurvedagatānāmekonaviṃśatisaṃkhyākānāmupaniṣadāṃ pūrṇamada iti śāntiḥ
«For the nineteen upaniṣads belonging to the Śukla-Yajurveda — Īśāvāsya, Bṛhadāraṇyaka, Jābāla, Haṃsa, Paramahaṃsa, Subāla, Mantrikā, Nirālamba, Triśikhī, Brāhmaṇa, Maṇḍalabrāhmaṇa, Advaya-tāraka, Paiṅgala, Bhikṣu, Turīyātīta, Adhyātma, Tārasāra, Yājñavalkya, and Śāṭyāyanī — the invocation is ‘that is full’…»
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Worth noting that the Muktikā stands last in this list, that is, the book again names itself within its own list; this was noted at the thirty-ninth verse. Add that the invocation of the Śukla-Yajurveda is the most famous of all five: pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṃ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate; pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate. Translation: «That is full; this is full. From the full, the full arises. Taking the full from the full, the full still remains».
Worth examining it, for it is, I think, the deepest of all five and at the same time the most disputed. The non-dual reading is this: fullness is one, and all that seems to arise is that same fullness; taking away subtracts nothing, for there is nothing to subtract. The Vaishnava reading was given at Īśāvāsya, and it is worth repeating.
It takes the verse literally: there are two — adaḥ, «that», and idam, «this»; and both are called full. And it is said that from the full, the full arises; that is, manifestation is real, not illusory. And the main point: taking the full from the full, the full remains — that is, the source does not diminish.
Read so, the verse is an exact description of śakti-pariṇāma: the power transforms, and he does not diminish; and the comparison with the spider and the web, cited at Sarasvatī-rahasya (4.22), is the same thing.