तद् एषः श्लोकः भवति तद् एव सक्तः सह कर्मणा एति लिङ्गं मनः यत्र निषक्तम् अस्य प्राप्य अन्तं कर्मणस् तस्य यत् किञ्चित् इह करोति अयम् तस्माल् लोकात् पुनर् ऐति अस्मै लोकाय कर्मणे इति नु कामयमानः अथाकामयमानः यः अकामो निष्कामः आप्तकामः आत्मकामः न तस्य प्राणाः उत्क्रामन्ति ब्रह्मैव सन् ब्रह्माप्येति
tad eṣaḥ ślokaḥ bhavati tad eva saktaḥ saha karmaṇā eti liṅgaṃ manaḥ yatra niṣaktam asya prāpya antaṃ karmaṇas tasya yat kiñcit iha karoti ayam tasmāl lokāt punar aiti asmai lokāya karmaṇe iti nu kāmayamānaḥ athākāmayamānaḥ yaḥ akāmo niṣkāmaḥ āptakāmaḥ ātmakāmaḥ na tasya prāṇāḥ utkrāmanti brahmaiva san brahmāpyeti
On this there is a verse: "To whatever he is attached, with that, together with his work, goes the subtle form — the mind; having reached the end of every work that he did here, he comes back again from that world to this world — to work." So of the man who desires. And now of the man who does not desire: he who is without desire, free from desire, whose desire is attained, whose desire is the ātman — his breaths do not go out: being Brahman, he goes into Brahman.
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Two routes of death in two paragraphs. The desirer: "to whatever he is attached (saktaḥ), with that he goes" — his subtle form (liṅga, the mind as vehicle); having exhausted the fruits in that world, "back again to this world — to work": the wheel of karma, familiar from the two paths (ChU 5.10). Attachment is a return ticket; merit is a currency with a finite account.
And the non-desirer — the verse that became a creed of the Upaniṣads: akāmo niṣkāma āptakāma ātmakāmaḥ — "without desire, free from desire, his desire attained, his desire the ātman": four rungs of one freedom (and again the summit is not emptiness but ātmakāma: a desire that has found Him!). For such a one "the breaths do not go out" — there is nowhere to go out to: na tasya prāṇā utkrāmanti; brahmaiva san brahmāpyeti — "being Brahman, he goes into Brahman". Not a journey but a recognition of being at home; for him the door of death does not open outward, for nothing is left outside.