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Upanishads · Muktikā 2.30
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Devanāgarī
अव्युत्पन्नमना यावद्भवानज्ञाततत्पदः । गुरुशास्त्रप्रमाणैस्तु निर्णीतं तावदाचर
Transliteration (IAST)
avyutpannamanā yāvadbhavānajñātatatpadaḥ | guruśāstrapramāṇaistu nirṇītaṃ tāvadācara
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SanskritIASTMeaning
अ-व्युत्पन्न-मनाः यावत्a-vyutpanna-manāḥ yāvatas long as the mind is untrained
भवान् अ-ज्ञात-तत्-पदःbhavān a-jñāta-tat-padaḥand you do not know that place
गुरु-शास्त्र-प्रमाणैः तुguru-śāstra-pramāṇaiḥ tuby the standards of teacher and scripture
निर्णीतं तावत् आचरnirṇītaṃ tāvat ācarawhat is settled, so long, practice
Translation
«As long as your mind is untrained and you do not know that place, so long practice what is settled by the standards of teacher and scripture».
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Here is a rule that is, I think, the soberest in this whole chapter, and it is worth stating. It says: as long as you have not arrived — live by the instruction of teacher and scripture. That is, all the preceding verses on habitlessness, unconsciousness, and mindlessness are referred to the one who has arrived; and the one who has not is told to do what is prescribed.
This detail removes the very abuse spoken of at Varāha (4.24) and Muktikā (2.19): a person who cites inward freedom to justify an action reveals that there is no freedom. Here the book limits itself; and this, I think, does it credit. Worth noting the two standards: guru and śāstra, teacher and scripture.
This pairing was examined at Varāha (4.31) and Śāṭyāyanī (3): a book without a teacher is interpreted however one likes, a teacher without a book degenerates into opinion; and hence both are required. The Vaishnava side adds a third — sādhu, «the honest», that is, a living tradition — and its rule requires that all three coincide. Add the word avyutpanna, «untrained», from vi-ut-pad: literally «not developed».
That is, one who does not know is called neither foolish nor sinful, but untrained; and this, I think, is the kindest word by which such a state can be named.