Upaniṣads Subāla 9.9

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Upaniṣads · Subāla 9.9

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पायुमेवाप्येति यः पायुमेवास्तमेति विसर्जयितव्यमेवाप्येति यो विसर्जयितव्यमेवास्तमेति मृत्युमेवाप्येति यो मृत्युमेवास्तमेति मध्यमामेवाप्येति यो मध्यमामेवास्तमेति प्रभञ्जनमेवाप्येति यः प्रभञ्जनमेवास्तमेति विज्ञानमेवाप्येति तदमृतमभयमशोकमनन्तनिर्बीजमेवाप्येतीति होवाच

Transliteración (IAST)

pāyumevāpyeti yaḥ pāyumevāstameti visarjayitavyamevāpyeti yo visarjayitavyamevāstameti mṛtyumevāpyeti yo mṛtyumevāstameti madhyamāmevāpyeti yo madhyamāmevāstameti prabhañjanamevāpyeti yaḥ prabhañjanamevāstameti vijñānamevāpyeti tadamṛtamabhayamaśokamanantanirbījamevāpyetīti hovāca

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पायुम् एव अप्येतिpāyum eva apyetiinto the anus it enters; to the anus it withdraws

यः पायुम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ pāyum eva astam etithat which sets in the anus; what goes down in the anus

विसर्जयितव्यम् एव अप्येतिvisarjayitavyam eva apyetiinto the excreted it enters; to what is discharged it withdraws

यः विसर्जयितव्यम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ visarjayitavyam eva astam etithat which sets in the excreted; what goes down in what is discharged

मृत्युम् एव अप्येतिmṛtyum eva apyetiinto death it enters; to death it withdraws

यः मृत्युम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ mṛtyum eva astam etithat which sets in death; what goes down in death

मध्यमाम् एव अप्येतिmadhyamām eva apyetiinto Madhyamā it enters; to Madhyamā it withdraws

यः मध्यमाम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ madhyamām eva astam etithat which sets in Madhyamā; what goes down in Madhyamā

प्रभञ्जनम् एव अप्येतिprabhañjanam eva apyetiinto the shattering breath it enters; to prabhañjana it withdraws

यः प्रभञ्जनम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ prabhañjanam eva astam etithat which sets in the shattering breath; what goes down in prabhañjana

विज्ञानम् एव अप्येतिvijñānam eva apyetiinto knowledge it enters; to cognition it withdraws

तत् अमृतम् अभयम्tat amṛtam abhayamthat immortal, fearless; it, deathless and unafraid

अशोकम् अनन्तम्aśokam anantamsorrowless, endless; without grief and without limit

निर्बीजम् एव अप्येतिnirbījam eva apyetiinto the seedless it enters; to the seedless it withdraws

इति ह उवाचiti ha uvācaso he said; so he spoke

Traducción

Into the anus enters that which sets in it; into the excreted enters that which sets in the excreted; into death enters that which sets in death; into Madhyamā enters that which sets in Madhyamā; into the shattering breath enters that which sets in it; into knowledge it enters; and into that immortal, fearless, sorrowless, endless, seedless — into it it enters. So he said.

Comentario

The ninth step, and in it is the line for whose sake it was worth reading this far: “into death enters that which sets in death” — and all of it sets further, into knowledge and into the seedless.

Death here is named one of the steps. Not the end of the row, but a link: it itself receives what sets, and itself sets further.

This is the third time in the book that death is put in its place. In the first khaṇḍa it was created before the living. In the fifth it was given the deity-ship of excretion. In the seventh it was said that it too is the body of Him who moves within it and whom it does not know. Here the last thing is added: it too sets.

The breath's name is prabhañjana, “the shattering, the breaking”; so is a hurricane called as well. It is joined with excretion and with death, and the combination has come out whole: everything that breaks and carries out is gathered into one step.

And yet its conclusion differs in nothing from the conclusion about the eye and the tongue: the same immortal, fearless, sorrowless, endless, seedless. The Upaniṣad makes no special case for death.

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