Upanishads · Subāla 6.3
॥
Devanāgarī
आदित्या रुद्रा मरुतो वसवोऽश्विनावृचो यजूंषि सामानि मन्त्रोऽग्निराज्याहुतिर्नारायण उद्भवः सम्भवो दिव्यो देव एको नारायणः
Transliteration (IAST)
ādityā rudrā maruto vasavo'śvināvṛco yajūṃṣi sāmāni mantro'gnirājyāhutirnārāyaṇa udbhavaḥ sambhavo divyo deva eko nārāyaṇaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
आदित्याः रुद्राःādityāḥ rudrāḥthe Ādityas, the Rudras; the solar gods, the terrible ones
मरुतः वसवःmarutaḥ vasavaḥthe Maruts, the Vasus; the winds and the Vasus
अश्विनौaśvinauthe two Aśvins; the heavenly twins
ऋचः यजूंषि सामानिṛcaḥ yajūṃṣi sāmānithe ṛcs, the yajuses, the sāmans; hymns, formulas, chants
मन्त्रः अग्निःmantraḥ agniḥthe mantra, the fire; the incantation and the flame
आज्याहुतिः नारायणःājyāhutiḥ nārāyaṇaḥthe offering of ghee — Nārāyaṇa; the ghee oblation — Nārāyaṇa
उद्भवः सम्भवःudbhavaḥ sambhavaḥarising and origination; emergence and becoming
दिव्यः देवः एकः नारायणःdivyaḥ devaḥ ekaḥ nārāyaṇaḥthe divine God, the one Nārāyaṇa; the divine Deity, the single Nārāyaṇa
Translation
The Ādityas, the Rudras, the Maruts, the Vasus, the two Aśvins, the ṛcs, the yajuses, the sāmans, the mantra, the fire, the offering of ghee — Nārāyaṇa; arising and origination — the divine God, the one Nārāyaṇa.
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The list continues, but now it takes not man, but the rite and its celestials.
Named are the classes of gods: the Ādityas, the Rudras, the Maruts, the Vasus, the Aśvins — that is, the whole Vedic pantheon by its groups. Named are the three Vedas by their kinds of utterance: ṛcs, yajuses, sāmans. And named is the sacrifice itself by its parts: the mantra, the fire, the offering of ghee.
All this is Nārāyaṇa.
What is said is at once affirming and sobering. The rite is not declared empty: it is called Him. But the gods to whom the rite is addressed are called Him as well. So the sacrificer, the offering, the fire and the one to whom it is offered are not four standing over against one another.
This is an old thought of the Veda, carried here to a single word. The Gītā will say the same at greater length: the oblation is Brahman, the fire is Brahman, the offerer is Brahman.
And two words are added, explaining why it is so: udbhava and sambhava — “arising” and “origination”. He is named that from which everything rises and that which everything becomes. Hence one may enumerate anything at all — the answer will be one.
This passage Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa adduces in the Govinda-bhāṣya when examining who is the bestower of the fruits of sacrifice: not the gods to whom the invocations are addressed, but He who is in them too.