Upaniṣads · Bhasmajābāla 1.19
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Devanāgarī
एवं भस्मधारणमकृत्वा नाश्नीयादापोऽन्नमन्यद्वा । प्रमादात्त्यक्त्वा भस्मधारणं न गायत्रीं जपेत् । न जुहुयादग्नौ तर्पयेद्देवानृषीन्पित्रादीन्
Transliteración (IAST)
evaṃ bhasmadhāraṇamakṛtvā nāśnīyādāpo'nnamanyadvā | pramādāttyaktvā bhasmadhāraṇaṃ na gāyatrīṃ japet | na juhuyādagnau tarpayeddevānṛṣīnpitrādīn
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एवं भस्म-धारणम् अ-कृत्वाevaṃ bhasma-dhāraṇam a-kṛtvāthus, not having performed the wearing of ash
न अश्नीयात् आपःna aśnīyāt āpaḥlet him not partake of water
अन्नम् अन्यत् वाannam anyat vānor food, nor anything else
प्रमादात् त्यक्त्वा भस्म-धारणंpramādāt tyaktvā bhasma-dhāraṇaṃfrom negligence having abandoned the wearing of ash
न गायत्रीं जपेत्na gāyatrīṃ japetlet him not repeat gāyatrī
न जुहुयात् अग्नौna juhuyāt agnaulet him not offer into the fire
Traducción
«Thus, not having performed the wearing of ash, let him not partake of water, nor food, nor anything else. From negligence having abandoned the wearing of ash, let him not repeat gāyatrī, let him not offer into the fire, let him not satisfy the gods, the sages, and the ancestors».
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The rule is stated harshly: without the mark nothing is allowed — neither eating, nor drinking, nor praying, nor offering. Worth noting the structure of such a rule, for it occurs in every ritual tradition and has its own logic. Its meaning is this: the mark is the condition of admission. Until it is applied, a person is, as it were, out of place: he has not yet entered the state from which one performs.
This logic is not bad in itself and in everyday life everyone has it: one does not sit down to table without washing one's hands; one does not enter a house in dirty shoes. Ritual only carries it to strictness. But worth noting too what such strictness turns into if carried to its end. Here it is said: do not repeat gāyatrī if you have not applied the mark. That is, an external condition is placed above the prayer itself.
Here is exactly where the Vaishnava side parts ways decisively. Its rule runs the opposite way: the Name has no conditions. The Bhāgavatam says that the Name works whenever, wherever, and in whatever state it is uttered; and no absence of mark, purity, place, or hour cancels it.
The difference between these two orderings is not a trifle. Where conditions exist, there will always be someone who fails to meet them — and he will be cut off. Where there are no conditions, there is no one to cut off.