Upanishads · Mahā 6.15
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Devanāgarī
त्यागादानपरित्यागी विज्वरो भव सर्वदा यस्येदं जन्म पाश्चात्यं तमाश्वेव महामते
Transliteration (IAST)
tyāgādānaparityāgī vijvaro bhava sarvadā yasyedaṃ janma pāścātyaṃ tamāśveva mahāmate
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
त्याग-आदान-परित्यागीtyāga-ādāna-parityāgīone who has left both leaving and taking; he who has renounced rejection and acceptance alike
विज्वरः भव सर्वदाvijvaraḥ bhava sarvadābe ever without fever; be always free of the burning
यस्य इदम् जन्म पाश्चात्यम्yasya idam janma pāścātyamand he whose birth this is the last; and he for whom this life is final
तम् आशु एव महा-मतेtam āśu eva mahā-matehim soon indeed, O great of mind; him shortly, O mighty in reason
Translation
“Having left both leaving and taking, be ever without fever. And he whose birth is his last — him soon, O great of mind…”
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The first line repeats the rule of 5.172: neither grasp nor let go.
Here it is said still more briefly: tyāga-ādāna-parityāgī — “one who has left both the leaving and the taking”.
Note that renunciation is put first. It is the more dangerous: taking we notice in ourselves, while refusal we count a virtue and therefore never check.
The second half begins a thought to be completed in the next verse, and in it stands the word pāścātya — “last, hindmost”.
Janma pāścātyam — “the last birth”.
This is the first place in the book where it speaks of what befalls a man in his final life. The answer will come in the next verse, and it is a beautiful one.