Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.20
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् याः सप्त महाव्याहृतयो भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān yāḥ sapta mahāvyāhṛtayo 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
याः सप्त महाव्याहृतयःyāḥ sapta mahāvyāhṛtayaḥthe seven great utterances; the seven great vyāhṛtis
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 all the seven great utterances. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The twentieth mantra names the seven mahāvyāhṛtis — “great utterances”.
These are the names of the seven worlds, spoken in the rite: bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ, mahaḥ, janaḥ, tapaḥ, satyam — earth, the middle region, heaven and the four above.
The first three of them stand as the refrain in every mantra of this chapter: bhūr bhuvaḥ suvaḥ.
Here, then, the doxology names as its subject what it itself pronounces in every line.
The ladder of the seven worlds we saw in the tenth khaṇḍa of the Subāla, and there it was charted in detail, with the inhabitants of each.
Note that these utterances are not held mere labels. They are spoken at the libation, and the speaking is thought an act: name a world — and it is present.
The same power the book ascribes to the mantra: the third verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva said that the one called by name turns round.
Seven words, then, hold seven worlds, and all of them are He.