Upanishads · Gopāla-tāpanī Uttara 91
॥
Devanāgarī
ध्यायेन्मम प्रियो नित्यं स मोक्षमधिगच्छति ।
स मुक्तो भवति तस्मै स्वात्मानं च ददामि वै
Transliteration (IAST)
dhyāyenmama priyo nityaṁ sa mokṣamadhigacchati |
sa mukto bhavati tasmai svātmānaṁ ca dadāmi vai
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ध्यायेत् मम प्रियः नित्यम्dhyāyet mama priyaḥ nityamlet My beloved contemplate this constantly; let the one dear to Me remember it always
सः मोक्षम् अधिगच्छतिsaḥ mokṣam adhigacchatihe attains liberation; he comes to mokṣa
सः मुक्तः भवतिsaḥ muktaḥ bhavatihe becomes free; he is made liberated
तस्मै स्वात्मानम् च ददामि वैtasmai svātmānam ca dadāmi vaiand to him I give My very Self; to that one I hand over My own essence
Translation
"Let My beloved contemplate this constantly: he attains liberation, he becomes free — and to him I give My very Self."
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Here stands a promise beyond which this book has nothing higher: tasmai svātmānaṁ ca dadāmi — "to him I give My very Self".
Three stages are listed, and the last surpasses the first two. He attains liberation. He becomes free. And — I give him Myself. Mokṣa is named not the limit but that after which the gift follows.
Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa cites this line in the Govinda-bhāṣya to show that one honoured by rite receives a worldly fruit, while one who has pleased Him with bhakti receives everything, "up to His very Self". He cites it too as an argument against reading "that am I" as identity: bestowal requires two, and identity would rob love of both giver and receiver.
Note to whom this is promised: mama priyaḥ, "My beloved". Not "the knowing one" and not "the eligible one" — the beloved. And one condition alone is named: dhyāyet nityam, "let him contemplate constantly".
So the long description of the form closes: having gone through the adornments down to the earrings, the book says for what all of it was contemplated.