Upanishads · Mahā 5.101
॥
Devanāgarī
आकाशशतभागाण्छा ज्ञेषु निष्कलरूपिणी सकलामलसंसारस्वरूपैकात्मदर्शिनी
Transliteration (IAST)
ākāśaśatabhāgāṇchā jñeṣu niṣkalarūpiṇī sakalāmalasaṃsārasvarūpaikātmadarśinī
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SanskritIASTMeaning
आकाश-शत-भाग-अच्छाākāśa-śata-bhāga-acchāa hundredfold clearer than space; purer than the expanse by a hundred parts
ज्ञेषु निष्कल-रूपिणीjñeṣu niṣkala-rūpiṇīin the knowing, appearing partless; among the wise, showing itself undivided
सकल-अमल-संसारsakala-amala-saṃsārathe whole stainless round; all the immaculate revolving of the world
स्वरूप-एक-आत्म-दर्शिनीsvarūpa-eka-ātma-darśinīseeing as the single essence of its own nature; beholding as the one self of its proper essence
Translation
“A hundredfold clearer than space, appearing partless to the knowing, seeing the whole stainless round as the single essence of its own nature.”
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The description of consciousness continues, and in it stands a word that arrests the eye: amala-saṃsāra — “the stainless round”.
Saṁsāra is called immaculate.
This is no slip. For one who sees it svarūpa-eka-ātma — “as the single essence of his own nature” — there is nothing bad in it, because the bad lay in the division, not in it.
This echoes 4.53: when the turmoil subsided, the seen “came to its being”.
Note the expression ākāśa-śata-bhāga-acchā — “clearer than space by a hundred parts”. The comparison with space was in the previous verse; here consciousness proves clearer than even that.
Niṣkala-rūpiṇī — “appearing without parts”, and it is said: jñeṣu, “among the knowing”. One and the same thing presents itself whole to the knower and fragmented to the rest.