Upaniṣads · Rudrahṛdaya 47
॥
Devanāgarī
अद्वैतं परमानन्दं शिवं याति तु कैवलम्
Transliteración (IAST)
advaitaṃ paramānandaṃ śivaṃ yāti tu kaivalam
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
अ-द्वैतं परम-आनन्दंa-dvaitaṃ parama-ānandaṃto the non-dual, supreme bliss
शिवं याति तु कैवलम्śivaṃ yāti tu kaivalamto Śiva he goes — to the sole one
Traducción
"To the non-dual, supreme bliss, to Śiva he goes — to the sole one."
Versión
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A half-verse, and it contains a word worth pausing on: yāti, "goes." For six lines it was proven that there is no difference, that consciousness is one, and that duality is fabricated. And right here it is said: goes.
Someone goes, and somewhere; and if the difference is fabricated, there is no one to go and nowhere to go, for the goer and the goal are one. This is not a quibble over a word. This whole literature, having proven unity, continues to speak in verbs of motion and relation: goes, attains, enters, obtains, takes refuge. This was discussed when reading the Tripurā-tāpanī (112), where the author, having set forth the most extreme teaching of unity, said of himself "I come for refuge."
The word kaivala, "sole," from kevala, "one, only, exclusively," is, in this literature, a name for the limit: kaivalya, "aloneness." In Sāṅkhya and yoga it means the separation of spirit from nature and its abiding by itself. The Vaiṣṇava side treats this word with reserve, and explains why. Kaivalya is freedom from, not freedom for; and the Bhāgavatam places it below service, calling those content with it as having received but little. To be separated from what torments is half the work; the second half is to have someone.