ते देवाः अब्रुवन् एतावत् वा इदम् सर्वम् यद् अन्नम् तद् आत्मने आगासीः अनु नः अस्मिन् अन्ने आभजस्व इति ते वै मा अभिसंविशत इति तथा इति तम् समन्तम् परिण्यविशन्त तस्मात् यद् अनेन अन्नम् अत्ति तेन एताः तृप्यन्ति एवम् ह वा एनम् स्वाः अभिसंविशन्ति भर्ता स्वानाम् श्रेष्ठः पुरएता भवति अन्नादः अधिपतिः यः एवम् वेद यः उ ह एवंविदम् स्वेषु प्रतिर् बुभूषति न ह एव अलम् भार्येभ्यः भवति अथ यः एव एतम् अनुभवति यः वै एतम् अनु भार्यान् बुभूर्षति सः ह एव अलम् भार्येभ्यः भवति
te devāḥ abruvan etāvat vā idam sarvam yad annam tad ātmane āgāsīḥ anu naḥ asmin anne ābhajasva iti te vai mā abhisaṃviśata iti tathā iti tam samantam pariṇyaviśanta tasmāt yad anena annam atti tena etāḥ tṛpyanti evam ha vā enam svāḥ abhisaṃviśanti bhartā svānām śreṣṭhaḥ puraetā bhavati annādaḥ adhipatiḥ yaḥ evam veda yaḥ u ha evaṃvidam sveṣu pratir bubhūṣati na ha eva alam bhāryebhyaḥ bhavati atha yaḥ eva etam anubhavati yaḥ vai etam anu bhāryān bubhūrṣati saḥ ha eva alam bhāryebhyaḥ bhavati
The gods said: "All this that is, is food, and you have sung it out for yourself. Give us a share in this food!" — "Then enter into me." — "So be it," and they entered into it from every side. Therefore by the food which it eats they too are satisfied. So too do his own people enter into one who knows this: he becomes the supporter of his own, the best, the leader, an eater of food and a lord. But whoever among his own sets himself up as a rival to one who knows this will not be able to support even his own dependants; whereas he who follows him, and after him wishes to maintain his people, will indeed be able to support them.
57a2d6dba065 · प्रकाशित 27 जुल॰ 2026, 12:40:48 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The sense-deities come to the prāṇa as petitioners: "all the food is yours — give us a share". The prāṇa's answer is one of the great sayings of the Veda: "enter into me" (mā abhisaṁviśata). Not "I shall share" but enter: a share in life is given not by distribution from outside but by an entering within; the senses are fed only by abiding in the breath, as branches in a trunk. Every attempt to feed apart from Life has already been tried — and ended in wounds.
Then the Upaniṣad translates the law into the language of a household: the knower becomes "the supporter of his own, the best, the leader" — people enter into him as the senses into the prāṇa, and are fed by his food. And one who contends with such a man "will not support even his own": rivalry with a disinterested man ruins the rival himself, for he is warring against the source of his own sustenance. A lesson for every community: hold to the one through whom life flows, and enter into his service — that is the only way to be fed oneself and to feed one's own.