Upaniṣads · Chāndogya 1,2.8
॥
Devanāgarī
एवम् यथा अश्मानम् आखणम् ऋत्वा विध्वंसते एवम् ह एव सः विध्वंसते यः एवंविदि पापम् कामयते यः च एनम् अभिदासति सः एषः अश्माखणः
Transliteración (IAST)
evam yathā aśmānam ākhaṇam ṛtvā vidhvaṃsate evam ha eva saḥ vidhvaṃsate yaḥ evaṃvidi pāpam kāmayate yaḥ ca enam abhidāsati saḥ eṣaḥ aśmākhaṇaḥ
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
एवम्evamthus; in this way
यथाyathāhow; like
अश्मानम्aśmānama stone; a rock
आखणम्ākhaṇamthe hard boulder; a stone
ऋत्वाṛtvāhaving struck; having run against
विध्वंसतेvidhvaṃsateit is destroyed; it is shattered
एवम्evamthus; in this way
हhaindeed; surely
एवevaindeed; surely
सःsaḥhe; that one
विध्वंसतेvidhvaṃsateit is destroyed; it is shattered
यःyaḥwho; the one who
एवंविदिevaṃvidito one who knows this (evaṁ-vid); to such a knower; to him who knows thus
पापम्pāpamthe evil; sin
कामयतेkāmayatedesires; longs for
यःyaḥwho; the one who
चcaand; as well as
एनम्enamit; of this
अभिदासतिabhidāsatihe seeks to harm (abhi-√dās — 'to plot evil'); he attacks; he oppresses
सःsaḥhe; that one
एषःeṣaḥthis; he
अश्माखणःaśmākhaṇaḥan unbreakable stone (aśma-ākhaṇa); a solid rock; granite
Traducción
As a [clod] is shattered on striking an unbreakable stone, so is he shattered who wishes evil to one who knows this — and who does him harm: for such a man is an unbreakable stone.
Versión
c2940017a6ef · publicado 26 jul 2026, 22:28:09 UTC
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The parable is transferred to man: sa eṣo 'śmākhaṇaḥ — "he is that unbreakable stone": one who knows and venerates the chief prāṇa becomes a rock himself: ya evaṁvidi pāpaṁ kāmayate — "whoever wishes evil to such a knower" — yaś cainam abhidāsati — "and whoever harms him" — is shattered as a clod upon stone.
The promise is not of a magical protection but of a law of contact: he who is established in the invulnerable is invulnerable by that same thing; evil aimed at him finds no chink of duality but a whole life — and crumbles against it, returning to the sender. Here is the root of the whole tradition of ahiṁsā-as-power: the knower's freedom from malice is no weakness but granite; men are broken upon the saints without wounding them (the same logic in the Muṇḍaka: about Brahman the haters perish).