Upanishads · Gopāla-tāpanī Pūrva 47
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Devanāgarī
निष्कलाय विमोहाय शुद्धायाशुद्धवैरिणे ।
अद्वितीयाय महते श्रीकृष्णाय नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
niṣkalāya vimohāya śuddhāyāśuddhavairiṇe |
advitīyāya mahate śrīkṛṣṇāya namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
निष्कलायniṣkalāyato the partless; to Him who has no portions
विमोहायvimohāyafree of delusion; free of error
शुद्धायśuddhāyapure; unmixed
अशुद्धवैरिणेaśuddhavairiṇethe enemy of impurity; the adversary of all that is unclean
अद्वितीयाय महतेadvitīyāya mahatewithout a second, great; the only one, immense
श्रीकृष्णाय नमो नमःśrīkṛṣṇāya namo namaḥto Śrī Kṛṣṇa obeisance and obeisance; to Śrī Kṛṣṇa homage again and again
Translation
Obeisance to the partless, free of delusion, pure, the enemy of impurity, without a second, the great one — to Śrī Kṛṣṇa obeisance and obeisance.
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After verses full of detail — the flute, the earrings, the hill — come suddenly the abstract definitions of Vedānta. And this is not a lapse in the hymn but its design: He whose earrings sway is the "partless one without a second".
Niṣkala — "partless", not put together out of portions. In the Upaniṣads this word is applied to Brahman; in the Śvetāśvatara it stands in the most solemn place. Here it is said of Him who lifted a hill on His little finger.
Vimoha — "free of delusion": the beguilement in which we live does not touch Him. Śuddha — "pure", and beside it aśuddha-vairin — "enemy of impurity": not only pure Himself but at war with the impure.
Advitīya — "without a second": the famous formula of the Chāndogya, "one without a second". Thereby the whole teaching of Brahman's uniqueness is brought into the hymn — and brought in as one of Kṛṣṇa's names.
So the Upaniṣad shows once more what its whole first part is occupied with: the philosophy of Vedānta and the village love of a cowherd have one subject.