Upanishads · Mahā 6.14
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Devanāgarī
यदस्तीह तदेवास्ति विज्वरो भव सर्वदा यथाप्राप्तानुभवतः सर्वत्रानभिवाञ्छनात्
Transliteration (IAST)
yadastīha tadevāsti vijvaro bhava sarvadā yathāprāptānubhavataḥ sarvatrānabhivāñchanāt
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
यत् अस्ति इहyat asti ihawhat is here; that which exists in this place
तत् एव अस्तिtat eva astithat alone is; that alone exists
विज्वरः भव सर्वदाvijvaraḥ bhava sarvadābe ever without fever; be always free of the burning
यथा-प्राप्त-अनुभवतःyathā-prāpta-anubhavataḥthrough experiencing what has come of itself; by the tasting of what fell to thee
सर्वत्र अनभिवाञ्छनात्sarvatra anabhivāñchanātthrough craving nothing anywhere; by coveting nowhere at all
Translation
“What is here, that alone is: be ever without fever — experiencing what has come of itself and craving nothing anywhere.”
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5882a202a5a4 · published Jul 29, 2026, 6:29:20 AM UTC
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The word for whose sake the verse is worth remembering: vijvara — “without fever, without heat”.
Jvara means “fever, burning”. Our ordinary condition is named an illness with a temperature.
This is more exact than “suffering”. In a fever everything seems weighty, alarming and demanding immediate action, and the man tosses about.
To cool down — that is the whole cure.
The first line — yad astīha tad evāsti, “what is, that is” — sounds like a byword, and yet the whole point is in it. Not “the world is illusory” and not “there is no world”: there is what there is.
And two ways of cooling down, named at the end: to taste what has come, and to solicit nothing.
This repeats the rule of 5.170 and 5.171.