Upaniṣads · Yājñavalkya p7
॥
Devanāgarī
अयं ते योनिरृत्विजो यतो जातो अरोचथाः । तं जानन्नग्न आरोहाथानो वर्धया रयिमित्यनेन मन्त्रेणाग्निमाजिघ्रेत्
Transliteración (IAST)
ayaṃ te yonirṛtvijo yato jāto arocathāḥ | taṃ jānannagna ārohāthāno vardhayā rayimityanena mantreṇāgnimājighret
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
अयं ते योनिः ऋत्विजःayaṃ te yoniḥ ṛtvijaḥthis is your womb, O priest
यतः जातः अरोचथाःyataḥ jātaḥ arocathāḥfrom which, born, you shone forth
तं जानन् अग्ने आरोहtaṃ jānan agne ārohaknowing it, O Agni, ascend
अथ नः वर्धय रयिम्atha naḥ vardhaya rayimand increase our wealth
Traducción
"This is your womb, O priest, from which, born, you shone forth; knowing it, O Agni, ascend, and increase our wealth" — by this mantra let him inhale [the scent of] the fire.
Versión
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A Vedic verse recited while inhaling the fire is cited, and it is worth examining the rite, for it is unusual. Agnim ājighret means "let him smell the fire," from ghrā, "to smell": the one departing inhales the smoke of the dying fire. This rite means that the fire enters into him: henceforth his altar is within, and he no longer kindles an outer one.
It is worth noting the word yoni, "womb," by which the source of the fire is named: "this is your womb, from which you were born." This word in the Vedas is applied to any source and does not carry the connotation it acquired later; it was discussed when reading the Gopāla-tāpanī. Let us add what is worth saying about the mantra itself, for it is taken from the ordinary fire rite and is used here out of its original purpose.
In the original it is a request for wealth: "increase our wealth." And in the rite of renunciation it is spoken by one who renounces all property. This incongruity is telling and worth noting without mockery. Ritual language outlives its purpose: a formula composed for one thing continues to be spoken for another, for it is sanctified by use. The Vaiṣṇava side in such cases holds a rule discussed more than once: prefer the direct reading, and turn to the figurative only where the direct one gives an absurdity. Here the direct one gives an absurdity; and so "wealth" here is read as spiritual wealth, and thus the matter is settled.