Upaniṣads · Kaṭha 6.8
॥
Devanāgarī
अव्यक्तात् तु परः पुरुषो व्यापको ऽलिङ्ग एव च ।
यं ज्ञात्वा मुच्यते जन्तुर् अमृतत्वं च गच्छति
Transliteración (IAST)
avyaktāt tu paraḥ puruṣo vyāpako 'liṅga eva ca /
yaṃ jñātvā mucyate jantur amṛtatvaṃ ca gacchati
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
अव्यक्तात्avyaktāthigher than the unmanifest; beyond the avyakta
तुtusurely; however
परःparaḥhigher; surpassing [all]
पुरुषःpuruṣaḥPuruṣa; the Supreme Person
व्यापकःvyāpakaḥall-pervading (vi-√āp — 'encompassing'); omnipresent; all-embracing
अलिङ्गःaliṅgaḥwithout [material] mark (a-liṅga); bearing no sign; not identifiable by features
एवevaindeed; truly
चcaand; as well as
यम्yamwhom; it
ज्ञात्वाjñātvāhaving known; having known
मुच्यतेmucyateis freed (from √muc); is loosed; is set free
जन्तुःjantuḥthe creature (jantu — 'the born'); the living creature; everyone born
अमृतत्वम्amṛtatvamimmortality; imperishability
चcaand; as well as
गच्छतिgacchatiattains; comes to
Traducción
But higher than the unmanifest is the Puruṣa, all-pervading and without [material] mark. Having known Him, a being is freed and attains immortality.
Versión
42378b0fe524 · publicado 26 jul 2026, 21:13:03 UTC
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avyaktāt tu paraḥ puruṣaḥ — "higher than the unmanifest is the Puruṣa": the last rung is named for the last time, with two definitions: vyāpakaḥ — "all-pervading": there is no point where He is not; aliṅgaḥ — "without a liṅga", without a material mark or token: He is not to be identified by any feature of the created — neither by a shape visible to the eye nor by a concept moulded by the mind (verse 69 has already stripped from Him all five sensory tokens). There are no marks — but there is He: marklessness is a property of His transcendence, not of His emptiness.
yaṁ jñātvā mucyate jantur amṛtatvaṁ ca gacchati — "having known Him, a being is freed and goes to immortality": a formula of fruit with two verbs: mucyate — he is untied (from the bonds of karma, of fear, of repeated deaths) — and gacchati — he goes: liberation is not a terminus but the striking off of fetters before a road; immortality is not a state of being unbound but the place to which the unbound go.
jantuḥ — the word is touchingly chosen: "a born creature", a mere living thing — not "a sage", not "a brāhmaṇa": every born being, on knowing the Unborn, enters His freedom. The door which the Kaṭha opened for Naciketas is opened by this word for everything that lives.