Upaniṣads · Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4,3.31
॥
Devanāgarī
यत्र वा अन्यद् इव स्यात् तत्र अन्यो अन्यत् पश्येत् अन्यो अन्यत् जिघ्रेत् अन्यो अन्यत् रसयेद् अन्यो अन्यत् वदेद् अन्यो अन्यत् शृणुयात् अन्यो अन्यत् मन्वीत अन्यो अन्यत् स्पृशेद् अन्यो अन्यत् विजानीयात्
Transliteración (IAST)
yatra vā anyad iva syāt tatra anyo anyat paśyet anyo anyat jighret anyo anyat rasayed anyo anyat vaded anyo anyat śṛṇuyāt anyo anyat manvīta anyo anyat spṛśed anyo anyat vijānīyāt
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
यत्रyatrawhere; when
वाvātruly; surely
अन्यद्anyadsomething other (anya); another; other
इवivaas it were (iva); so to speak; as it were
स्यात्syātvery well; becomes
तत्रtatrathere; in that place
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
पश्येत्paśyethe might see; he would see
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
जिघ्रेत्jighrethe might smell; he would smell
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
रसयेद्rasayedhe might taste; he would discern a taste
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
वदेद्vadedcould he speak; he would say
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
शृणुयात्śṛṇuyāthe might hear; he would hear
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
मन्वीतmanvītahe might think; he would think
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
स्पृशेद्spṛśedhe might touch; he would touch
अन्योanyoanother (anya); other; another
अन्यत्anyatanother; other
विजानीयात्vijānīyāthe would know; he would know
Traducción
Where there is as it were another, there one might see another, one might smell another, one might taste another, one might speak to another, one might hear another, one might think another, one might touch another, one might know another.
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The summation of the eight beats is the formula of the dual world: yatra vā anyad iva syāt — "where there is as it were another" (iva! — even in waking, duality is only "as it were"), there all eight pairs are at work: one sees another, one hears another… Objective knowing is the regime of separation: to see, one must be fenced off from the seen.
All our experience is a meeting across the fence of "otherness". The Upaniṣad does not scold this regime (waking life and its loves live by it) — it only shows its conditionality: the fence is "as it were". And so it prepares the last step: what happens when the fence falls?