Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.35
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् यच्च भूतं भव्यं भविष्यत् भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān yacca bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ bhaviṣyat 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 भूतम् भव्यम् भविष्यत्yat ca bhūtam bhavyam bhaviṣyatwhich is the past, the present, the future; that which is what was, what is, what shall be
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 past, the present and the future. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The thirty-fifth mantra names the three times: bhūtam, bhavyam, bhaviṣyat — what was, what is and what shall be.
These three words have stood in this very book already, and stood in the most important place: in the ninth paragraph of the second chapter of the uttara, where the Māṇḍūkya was cited. “The past, the present and the future — all this is the Oṁkāra; and what else is beyond the three times — that too is the Oṁkāra.”
Here the same formula, but the subject is named by name.
This is the whole device of the chapter, and on this mantra it is especially clear. What is said of the syllable Oṁ is said of Rāmacandra.
Note that there there was an addition: “and what else is beyond the three times”. Here it is absent, and rightly: the forty-second, forty-fifth and forty-seventh mantras will name the transcendent separately.
In the sixty-third verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva there flickered amid the secret code the expression nārāyaṇātmakaḥ kālaḥ — “time consisting of Nārāyaṇa”. I said then: time is not faceless and therefore no enemy.
Here is the same thought in doxology.