Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.16
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् यच्चामृतं भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān yaccāmṛtaṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ suvastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रःoṃ yaḥ ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥOṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra; Oṁ. The very one who is Śrī-Rāmacandra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is Bhagavān
यत् च अमृतम्yat ca amṛtamwhich is the immortal; that which is amṛta
भूर्भुवः सुवःbhūrbhuvaḥ suvaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Translation
Oṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra — He is the Lord, and He is that which is the immortal. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The sixteenth mantra is set right after the fifteenth, and in this neighbourhood is the whole sense: death — and immortality, one after the other, of one and the same.
Amṛta — “non-death”: the word is formed by the direct negation of what stood in the previous line.
Four mantras in a row went of the end — Yama, the Ender, death; and now the fifth breaks the row.
Here one must stop and see the structure. The doxology did not say “death is dreadful, but God is stronger than it”. It said: both are He.
In this such theology differs from consolation. Consolation opposes; here there is nothing to oppose.
Recall the third paragraph of the second chapter of the uttara: the tāraka ferries “from the great fear of the womb, of birth, of old age, of death and of the round”. Fear, not death, is there named great.
And fear departs when death and immortality prove to be of one name.