Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 5.4
॥
Devanāgarī
नमःपदं सुविज्ञेयं पूर्णानन्दैकविग्रहम् । सदा नमन्ति हृदये सर्वे देवा मुमुक्षवः
Transliteration (IAST)
namaḥpadaṃ suvijñeyaṃ pūrṇānandaikavigraham | sadā namanti hṛdaye sarve devā mumukṣavaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
नमःपदम् सुविज्ञेयम्namaḥpadam suvijñeyamthe word “namaḥ” is to be well known; the word namaḥ must be rightly understood
पूर्णानन्दैकविग्रहम्pūrṇānandaikavigrahamwhose one form is the fullness of bliss; whose single body is the whole fullness of joy
सदा नमन्ति हृदयेsadā namanti hṛdayealways they bow in the heart; constantly they incline within the heart
सर्वे देवाः मुमुक्षवःsarve devāḥ mumukṣavaḥall the gods and the seekers of freedom; all the celestials and those longing for mokṣa
Translation
“The word ‘namaḥ’ — let it be well known as that whose one form is the fullness of bliss; to it all the gods and all the seekers of freedom ever bow in the heart.”
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The third part of the mantra: namaḥ, the bow.
And of it is said what one does not expect: pūrṇānandaika-vigraha — “whose one form is the fullness of bliss”. The word vigraha means “body, figure”.
That is, the bow has a body, and that body is bliss.
Recall how the book interpreted this word before. The second verse of the third Upaniṣad of the pūrva said that “namaḥ” proclaims oneness; the first verse of the fourth — that it means the jīva, that is, the bower himself.
Here is the third interpretation, and it completes: the one who bows, in bowing, finds himself in fullness.
Then it is said who bows: “all the gods and all the seekers of freedom”, and moreover hṛdaye — “in the heart”.
The bow, then, is no bodily motion. It is performed within, and it is performed by those who have nowhere else to turn: the gods, who have everything, and the mumukṣus, who have nothing but the desire for freedom.
The parsing of the mantra is done. The next paragraph will begin the list of what it does.