उपनिषद् · Muṇḍaka 3.1.3
॥
देवनागरी
यदा पश्यः पश्यते रुक्मवर्णं कर्तारम् ईशं पुरुषं ब्रह्मयोनिम् ।
तदा विद्वान् पुण्यपापे विधूय निरञ्जनः परमं साम्यम् उपैति ॥
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
yadā paśyaḥ paśyate rukmavarṇaṃ kartāram īśaṃ puruṣaṃ brahmayonim |
tadā vidvān puṇyapāpe vidhūya nirañjanaḥ paramaṃ sāmyam upaiti ||
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
यदाyadāwhen; at the moment when
पश्यःpaśyaḥthe seeing one (paśya); the beholder; the one who looks
पश्यतेpaśyatesees; beholds
रुक्मवर्णम्rukmavarṇamthe gold-radiant (rukma-varṇa — 'of the colour of gold'); the gold-hued; the gold-shining
कर्तारम्kartāramthe Creator (kartṛ); the Maker; the Doer
ईशम्īśamthe Lord; the Ruler
पुरुषम्puruṣamthe Puruṣa; the Supreme Person
ब्रह्मयोनिम्brahmayonimthe womb of Brahman (brahma-yoni — 'the source of Brahman'); the origin of Brahman; the begetting principle of Brahman
तदाtadāthen; at the moment when
विद्वान्vidvānknowing; wise
पुण्यपापेpuṇyapāpegood and evil (puṇya-pāpa); merit and sin; the meritorious and the sinful
विधूयvidhūyahaving shaken off (vi-√dhū); having shed; having thrown off
निरञ्जनःnirañjanaḥstainless (nir-añjana — 'without smear'); free of blemish; spotless
परमम्paramamthe highest; the transcendent
साम्यम्sāmyamlikeness (sāmya — 'sameness of quality'); similarity; assimilation
उपैतिupaitiattains (upa-√i); obtains; comes to
अनुवाद
When the seer sees the gold-radiant Maker, the Lord, the Puruṣa, the womb of Brahman — then the knower, having shaken off good and evil, stainless, attains the highest likeness [to Him].
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The third verse of the trilogy of the birds — what happens after the meeting of eyes. yadā paśyaḥ paśyate — "when the seer sees" (the doubling of the root √paś — sight at full strength): rukma-varṇaṁ kartāram īśaṁ puruṣam brahma-yonim — "the gold-hued, the Maker, the Lord, the Puruṣa, the womb of Brahman": four titles of the Second Bird, each higher than the last: He creates, He rules, He is a Person, and He is the yoni of Brahman itself: the source from which even the radiance of Brahman comes (Gītā 14.27: brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham — "I am the basis of Brahman").
tadā vidvān puṇya-pāpe vidhūya — "then the knower, having shaken off good-and-evil": vidhūya — "shaking off", as a bird shakes water from its wings: both weights — merits and sins — fall away: one who has beheld the Maker lives no longer by the bookkeeping of fruits but by His gaze. nirañjanaḥ — "stainless" (without añjana — collyrium, smudge): pure with the purity with which the Witness is pure.
paramaṁ sāmyam upaiti — "he attains the highest likeness": sāmya is sameness of quality, assimilation: the bird that looked at the Bird becomes like Her — free, luminous, no longer eating in bondage. Not identity (the seer does not become the Seen — a meeting does not abolish the two), but neither estrangement: a kinship opened to the utmost nearness. And this is the goal of the whole Muṇḍaka: from "the blind led by the blind" to a gold-radiant likeness to the Lord.