Upanishads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 5.13
॥
Devanāgarī
ऐहलौकिकमैश्वर्यं स्वर्गाद्यं पारलौकिकम् । कैवल्यं भगवत्त्वं च मन्त्रोऽयं साधयिष्यति
Transliteration (IAST)
aihalaukikamaiśvaryaṃ svargādyaṃ pāralaukikam | kaivalyaṃ bhagavattvaṃ ca mantro'yaṃ sādhayiṣyati
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ऐहलौकिकम् ऐश्वर्यम्aihalaukikam aiśvaryamlordship of this world; might in this world
स्वर्गाद्यम् पारलौकिकम्svargādyam pāralaukikamheaven and the rest — of the other world; the celestial and other — in the world beyond
कैवल्यम् भगवत्त्वम् चkaivalyam bhagavattvam caand singleness, and Godhood; kaivalya and bhagavattva
मन्त्रः अयम् साधयिष्यतिmantraḥ ayam sādhayiṣyatithis mantra will bring about; this mantra will accomplish
Translation
“Lordship in this world, the other-worldly — heaven and the rest, — singleness and Godhood: all this the mantra will bring about.”
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The verse lists four measures of fruit, and their ladder goes upward.
The first — aihalaukika aiśvarya, “lordship of this world”: what is wanted in this life.
The second — pāralaukika, “the other-worldly”: the heavens one reaches by merit.
The third — kaivalya, “singleness”. This word belongs to Sāṅkhya and Yoga and means liberation as the separation of spirit from matter: to remain alone, without admixture.
The fourth — bhagavattva, and this word is rare. It means “the state of Bhagavān, Godhood”.
This last is what deserves notice, for it is set after kaivalya.
That is, the solitary liberation is not named here the limit. Beyond it there is something more: not merely to leave the round, but to enter into that by which Bhagavān lives.
This is the Vaiṣṇava reading of mokṣa, and we have read it already in the fifteenth paragraph of the third chapter of the uttara: “freed, they attain me.” Liberation there was not the end, but what makes the coming possible.