Upanishads · Varāha 4.44
॥
Devanāgarī
खेचरा भूचराः सर्वे ब्रह्मविद्दृष्टिगोचराः । सद्य एव विमुच्यन्ते कोटिजन्मार्जितैरघैः
Transliteration (IAST)
khecarā bhūcarāḥ sarve brahmaviddṛṣṭigocarāḥ | sadya eva vimucyante koṭijanmārjitairaghaiḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
खे-चराः भू-चराः सर्वेkhe-carāḥ bhū-carāḥ sarveall sky-goers and earth-goers
ब्रह्म-वित्-दृष्टि-गोचराःbrahma-vit-dṛṣṭi-gocarāḥfalling within the sight of the knower of brahman
सद्यः एव विमुच्यन्तेsadyaḥ eva vimucyanteare freed at once
कोटि-जन्म-आर्जितैः अघैःkoṭi-janma-ārjitaiḥ aghaiḥfrom sins accumulated over myriads of births
Translation
"All sky-goers and earth-goers, falling within the sight of the knower of brahman, are freed at once from sins accumulated over myriads of births."
Version
fa110ea390ab · published Aug 12, 2026, 5:00:00 AM UTC
Available inRUENPage between verses with
The fourth chapter ends, and it deserves looking back on, for it is the finest in the book. Unlike the second and third, it is unanimous: it contains neither the denial of the teacher, nor the confession "there is neither world nor souls," nor abrupt shifts from one language to another. The one intrusion is the Shaiva formula (4.32), and it is inserted whole, like a foreign body.
Its content is threefold, and all three parts are fine. The first — the seven stages (4.1–4.12): a ladder, where every stage is defined by its own mark, and the first by the direct speech of a person dissatisfied with himself. The second — the ten marks of one liberated while living (4.21–4.30), and seven of the ten are marks of conduct, that is, verifiable.
The third — the two paths (4.34–4.42): bird and ant, both made by god, both leading to one place, and that place named "the highest place of Vishnu." Let us add what is precious in this chapter for the Vaishnava reading, and has been discussed along the way. Two alterations of the Gita's verses, made in opposite directions (4.26 and 4.28), show how the book was compiled better than any argument.
The second of them — "content in Me" instead of "content by oneself in oneself" — is, in my view, the most valuable passage in the whole book: it not only changed the meaning, but corrected the language, for the verb "to be content" requires two. The fifth chapter, to which we now turn, will leave all this aside and take up the body, the breath, and the inner resonance.