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Upanishads · Muktikā 2.71
॥
Devanāgarī
तामप्यथ परित्यज्य मनोबुद्धिसमन्विताम् । शेषस्थिरसमाधानो मयि त्वं भव मारुते
Transliteration (IAST)
tāmapyatha parityajya manobuddhisamanvitām | śeṣasthirasamādhāno mayi tvaṃ bhava mārute
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ताम् अपि अथ परित्यज्यtām api atha parityajyait too, then, having abandoned
मनः-बुद्धि-समन्विताम्manaḥ-buddhi-samanvitāmjoined with mind and intellect
शेष-स्थिर-समाधानःśeṣa-sthira-samādhānaḥwith the remaining firm concentration
मयि त्वं भव मारुतेmayi tvaṃ bhava mārutein me, be you, son of the Wind
Translation
«And having abandoned that too, joined with mind and intellect, with a remaining firm concentration — be you in me, son of the Wind».
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e199c108f758 · published Aug 12, 2026, 5:00:00 AM UTC
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Here is the last rung of the ladder, and worth noting is what it is called: mayi tvaṃ bhava, «be you in Me». The ladder has run thus. Abandon the habits toward things (2.69).
Take up good habits — friendliness and the rest (2.69). Abandon these too, but act by them (2.70). Abandon even the habit of consciousness alone (2.71).
And be — in Me. That is, the last rung is named not as emptiness and not as a state, but as a place beside someone; and, moreover, in the locative case: mayi, «in Me». This detail, I think, is the main point of the whole second chapter, and it is worth saying plainly.
This chapter was entirely about work with oneself: about habits, about breath, about the destruction of the mind; and now, on the last step, when even «consciousness alone» has been abandoned, it is said not «remain yourself», but «be in Me». It was noted at Varāha (4.28) that the reworking of a Gītā verse — mayi instead of ātmani — not only changed the meaning but corrected the grammar, for «to be content» requires two. Here the same: one can be in someone, and the locative case requires a vessel distinct from what it holds.
And add: the very chapter taken from another's work ends with a word that could not have stood in that other work.