उपनिषद् · Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4,4.25
॥
देवनागरी
सः वा एषः महान् अजः आत्मा अजरः अमरः अमृतः अभयः ब्रह्म अभयं वै ब्रह्म अभयं हि वै ब्रह्म भवति यः एवम् वेद
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
saḥ vā eṣaḥ mahān ajaḥ ātmā ajaraḥ amaraḥ amṛtaḥ abhayaḥ brahma abhayaṃ vai brahma abhayaṃ hi vai brahma bhavati yaḥ evam veda
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
सःsaḥhe; that one
वाvātruly; surely
एषःeṣaḥthis; he
महान्mahāngreat; vast
अजःajaḥunborn; without birth
आत्माātmāthe self; the ātman
अजरःajaraḥageless (a-jara); never decaying; the unaging
अमरःamaraḥdeathless (a-mara); not subject to death; the undying
अमृतःamṛtaḥthe immortal (a-mṛta); imperishable; immortal
अभयःabhayaḥthe fearless (a-bhaya); fearless; fearless
ब्रह्मbrahmaBrahman; the sacred reality
अभयंabhayaṃfearlessness (a-bhaya); safety; fearlessness
वैvaitruly; indeed
ब्रह्मbrahmaBrahman; the sacred reality
अभयंabhayaṃfearlessness (a-bhaya); safety; fearlessness
हिhiindeed; truly
वैvaitruly; indeed
ब्रह्मbrahmaBrahman; the sacred reality
भवतिbhavatibecomes; he presents himself
यःyaḥwho; the one who
एवम्evamthus; in this way
वेदvedaknows; realises
अनुवाद
This great unborn ātman is unaging, undying, immortal, fearless — Brahman. Fearlessness indeed is Brahman; he who knows thus becomes the fearless Brahman.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The last verse of the instruction to Janaka — and it ends with the same word as their second conversation (4.2.4): abhayam, fearlessness. Four steps of titles — ajaro 'maro 'mṛto 'bhayaḥ: unaging, undying, immortal, fearless — and an identity raised into a creed: abhayaṁ vai brahma — "fearlessness is Brahman".
Fear, as we have known since the first pages, comes "from a second" (1.4.2); Brahman is that beside which there is no second, and therefore He is Fearlessness itself — not as a property but as a name. And the promise closes the circle: abhayaṁ hi vai brahma bhavati ya evaṁ veda — "he who knows thus becomes the fearless Brahman": the last gift of knowledge is not power, not even bliss, but fearlessness, the quietest of miracles. Whoever no longer fears is home.