Upaniṣads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 1.3
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Devanāgarī
एवमेवैतद्याज्ञवल्क्य
Transliteración (IAST)
evamevaitadyājñavalkya
Palabra por palabra
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एवम् एव एतत् याज्ञवल्क्यevam eva etat yājñavalkya“just so is this, O Yājñavalkya”; “exactly so it is, Yājñavalkya”
Traducción
“Just so is this, O Yājñavalkya.”
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The whole first chapter of the uttara-tāpanī ends with three words: the asker agrees.
This formula — evam evaitat, “just so is this” — is usual in the Upaniṣads and means not politeness but acknowledgment: what was said is accepted.
Let us note who agrees. Bṛhaspati, the preceptor of the gods, acknowledges the rightness of a man — Yājñavalkya.
We have seen this order in the pūrva-tāpanī already: the gods came to ask of Rāma, and He was shown a man; and He obeyed the old forest woman Śabarī. The book consistently makes the celestials pupils.
And one thing more. This chapter is the shortest in the book — three paragraphs. All that is said in it: the avimukta is not a place but what is with you everywhere; and in the hour of death the ferrying word sounds in it.
More than this cannot be said until the word itself is named. The next chapter — the longest and most important in the uttara — will name it.