Upanishads · Mahā 6.13
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Devanāgarī
तते ब्रह्मघने नित्ये संभवन्ति न कल्पिताः न शोकोऽस्ति न मोहोऽस्ति न जरास्ति न जन्म वा
Transliteration (IAST)
tate brahmaghane nitye saṃbhavanti na kalpitāḥ na śoko'sti na moho'sti na jarāsti na janma vā
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
तते ब्रह्म-घने नित्येtate brahma-ghane nityein the outspread, solid, eternal Brahman; in the extended, condensed, everlasting Brahman
सम्भवन्ति न कल्पिताःsambhavanti na kalpitāḥthe contrived things do not arise; the imagined ones do not come to be
न शोकः अस्तिna śokaḥ astithere is no grief; no sorrow exists
न मोहः अस्तिna mohaḥ astithere is no delusion; no befooling exists
न जरा अस्तिna jarā astithere is no old age; no decrepitude exists
न जन्म वाna janma vānor any birth; nor any coming to birth
Translation
“In the outspread, solid, eternal Brahman the contrived things do not arise: there is no grief, no delusion, no old age, no birth.”
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Four negations, and they cover everything a man fears.
Śoka — grief. Moha — delusion. Jarā — old age. Janma — birth.
Note that birth is set in one row with old age and grief — that is, as a calamity. To one who clings to life this sounds strange; for these books birth is the beginning of all woes.
The word kalpitāḥ — “contrived”. All four are named contrivances, and therefore in Brahman they are not: there, there is nothing to contrive with.
Brahma-ghana — “solid Brahman”. The word ghana, “dense, thick”, in this book usually meant condensation downward (5.126, 5.179). Here it is applied to Him — and means wholeness without hollows.
One and the same word, and the direction reversed.