उपनिषद् · Śvetāśvatara 6.8
॥
देवनागरी
न तस्य कार्यं करणं च विद्यते न तत्समश् चाभ्यधिकश् च दृश्यते ।
परास्य शक्तिर् विविधैव श्रूयते स्वाभाविकी ज्ञानबलक्रिया च
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
na tasya kāryaṃ karaṇaṃ ca vidyate na tatsamaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate /
parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate svābhāvikī jñānabalakriyā ca
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
न तस्य कार्यम्na tasya kāryamHe has no body to be made; He has nothing that must be effected
करणम् च विद्यतेkaraṇam ca vidyatenor is any organ found; and He has no instruments
न तत्समःna tatsamaḥnone is equal to Him; no one is His equal
च अभ्यधिकः च दृश्यतेca abhyadhikaḥ ca dṛśyatenor is any greater seen; and none greater is seen
परा अस्य शक्तिःparā asya śaktiḥHis supreme power; the highest force of His
विविधा एवvividhā evais manifold indeed; is truly of many kinds
श्रूयतेśrūyateis heard of; is proclaimed in śruti
स्वाभाविकीsvābhāvikīinnate; belonging to His very nature
ज्ञानबलक्रिया चjñānabalakriyā caand knowledge, might and action; knowing, strength and activity
अनुवाद
He has neither body nor instruments; none is seen equal to Him or greater. But it is heard that His supreme power is manifold and innate: knowledge, might and action.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
One of the most important mantras of the whole Upaniṣad and one of the most quoted in Vedānta.
The first half denies: He has no kārya — no body, nothing made and to be made — and no karaṇa, no instruments. This continues the thought of 3.19: He sees without an eye and holds without a hand. And at once every thought of a rival is removed: there is neither an equal nor a greater.
The second half affirms — and affirms the very thing for which the mantra is remembered: parā asya śaktiḥ, "His supreme power". Two things are said of it. It is vividhā, "manifold": not one energy but many. And it is svābhāvikī — "innate", belonging to His very nature, not acquired and not attached from outside.
This is the root of all the later teaching about śakti. God is not almighty because someone endowed Him with power, nor all-knowing because He learned: power is natural to Him as heat is to fire. Hence too the famous triad named here: jñāna, bala, kriyā — knowledge, might, action.
The Vaiṣṇava ācāryas lean on this line constantly. From it is derived that the world came from Him not by a transformation of Himself but by the action of His energy; that His qualities are not induced by māyā but innate; and that the "qualitylessness" of śruti denies only the guṇas of nature. Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa cites this mantra in showing that the Lord and His śakti are inseparable, as fire and heat.