उपनिषद् · Gopāla-tāpanī Uttara 112
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देवनागरी
ओम् योऽसौ परं ब्रह्म गोपाल
ओम् तत्सद् भूर्भुवः
स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
om yo'sau paraṁ brahma gopāla
om tatsad bhūrbhuvaḥ
svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
ओं यः असौoṁ yaḥ asauoṁ, He who; oṁ, the one who
परम् ब्रह्म गोपालःparam brahma gopālaḥis Gopāla, the highest Brahman; Gopāla, the sovereign Brahman
ओं तत् सत्oṁ tat satoṁ, that is the truth; oṁ, that is the real
भूः भुवः स्वःbhūḥ bhuvaḥ svaḥearth, air, heaven; the three worlds
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto Him obeisance and obeisance; to him precisely homage again and again
अनुवाद
Oṁ, that Gopāla who is the highest Brahman. Oṁ, that is the truth; earth, air, heaven. To Him obeisance and obeisance.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The sixth invocation: Gopāla is the highest Brahman.
This is the very identification the book has been moving toward since its first mantra. There Brahmā answered the sages: "the supreme Deity is Kṛṣṇa"; in mantra 5 it was said that all four names together "are nothing but the supreme Brahman"; in mantra 37 of the first part, "that five-worded place is Vāsudeva, beyond whom there is nothing".
Now this is uttered as an obeisance. The philosophical assertion has become a formula of worship — and in this one sees where the book is leading: not to a conclusion but to an address.
Note that the word "Brahman" here does not replace the name but stands beside it: "Gopāla, who is the highest Brahman". Neither of the two swallows the other.
Two invocations remain: of the soul of all beings and of Him who is beyond the three states of consciousness.