Upaniṣads · Varāha 4.3
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Devanāgarī
स्थितः किं मूढ एवास्मि प्रेक्ष्योऽहं शास्त्रसज्जनैः । वैराग्यपूर्णमिच्छेति शुभेच्छेत्युच्यते बुधैः
Transliteración (IAST)
sthitaḥ kiṃ mūḍha evāsmi prekṣyo'haṃ śāstrasajjanaiḥ | vairāgyapūrṇamiccheti śubhecchetyucyate budhaiḥ
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स्थितः किं मूढः एव अस्मिsthitaḥ kiṃ mūḍhaḥ eva asmi'shall I remain a fool?'
प्रेक्ष्यः अहं शास्त्र-सत्-जनैःprekṣyaḥ ahaṃ śāstra-sat-janaiḥ'I ought to turn to scripture and the honest'
वैराग्य-पूर्णम् इच्छा इतिvairāgya-pūrṇam icchā itia desire full of dispassion — thus
शुभ-इच्छा इति उच्यते बुधैःśubha-icchā iti ucyate budhaiḥis called by the wise good desire
Traducción
"'Shall I remain a fool?' 'I ought to turn to scripture and to honest people' — such a desire, full of dispassion, is called by the wise good desire."
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The first stage is defined, and it deserves noting how alive it is: a person's own words are given. "Shall I remain a fool?" That is, the beginning of everything is named dissatisfaction with oneself; and, moreover, dissatisfaction stated with vexation, not with tenderness. This definition is, in my view, precise, and deserves holding onto.
A person is set in motion not when things are explained to him, but when he has grown ashamed; and anyone who remembers his own beginning will recognize this description. Let us add what is named the second movement: prekshyo'ham shastra-sad-janaih, "I ought to turn to scripture and honest people." Worth noting is that both are named, and together: book and people.
This pairing is fundamental in Vaishnava practice, and is stated through shastra and sadhu; and of the fact that a book without company is interpreted as one pleases, while company without a book degenerates into opinion, discussed when reading the Krishna Upanishad (2.15). Let us add the word vairagya-purnam, "full of dispassion." Here dispassion stands at the beginning; for the Vaishnava side it stands in the middle and comes of itself, discussed when reading the Jabala-darshana (4.9), and which it expresses through the Bhagavatam's verse 11.2.42: faith, taste for Him, and aversion to everything else appear all at once, like satiety, pleasure, and the quenching of hunger while eating.