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Upanishads · Muktikā 2.18
॥
Devanāgarī
वासनां सम्परित्यज्य मयि चिन्मात्र विग्रहे । यस्तिष्ठति गतो व्यग्रः सोऽहं सच्चित्सुखात्मकः
Transliteration (IAST)
vāsanāṃ samparityajya mayi cinmātra vigrahe | yastiṣṭhati gato vyagraḥ so'haṃ saccitsukhātmakaḥ
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SanskritIASTMeaning
वासनां सम्परित्यज्यvāsanāṃ samparityajyahabit having fully abandoned
मयि चित्-मात्र-विग्रहेmayi cit-mātra-vigrahein me, whose form is consciousness alone
यः तिष्ठति गत-व्यग्रःyaḥ tiṣṭhati gata-vyagraḥwho abides, having left agitation
सः अहं सत्-चित्-सुख-आत्मकःsaḥ ahaṃ sat-cit-sukha-ātmakaḥthat am I, whose essence is being, consciousness, and happiness
Translation
«Whoever, having fully abandoned habit, abides in me, whose form is consciousness alone, having left agitation — that am I, whose essence is being, consciousness, and happiness».
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Here is a verse where, into a chapter on working with oneself, the personal again enters, and this is worth noting. It says mayi cin-mātra-vigrahe, «in me, whose form is consciousness alone». Worth examining the word vigraha, for we have already met it in this book.
In the first chapter (1.4) Hanumān named Rāma sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ, «having a body of being, consciousness, and bliss»; and there it was noted that the three abstract words turn out to be not a definition but the substance of a form. Here the same: cin-mātra-vigraha, «having a form of consciousness alone». That is, here too it is not said «I am consciousness», but «I have a form of consciousness».
Add the last half-verse: so'haṃ sac-cit-sukhātmakaḥ, «that am I». That is, identity is promised; and it is worth saying how the Vaishnava side reads such places. Its reading was cited at Varāha (2.8), and let it be repeated briefly: so'ham for it is not «I am He», but «I am His»; and the difference between identity and belonging is the whole difference between the two readings.
The ground given is the same word vigraha: if he has a form, one merged with the form should become that form; but the verse speaks of one who abides in him — mayi tiṣṭhati, in the locative. And to abide in someone is possible only for one who is not him.