स एतं देवयानं पन्थानमासाद्याग्निलोकमागच्छति स वायुलोकं स वरुणलोकं स आदित्यलोकं स इन्द्रलोकं स प्रजापतिलोकं स ब्रह्मलोकं तस्य ह वा एतस्य ब्रह्मलोकस्यारोहृदो मुहूर्तोऽन्वेष्टिहा विरजा नदील्यो वृक्षः सालज्यं संस्थानमपराजितमायतनमिन्द्रप्रजापती द्वारगोपौ । विभुप्रमितं विचक्षणाऽऽसन्द्यमितौजाः पर्यङ्कः प्रिया च मानसी प्रतिरूपा च चाक्षुषी पुष्पाण्यावयतौ वै च जगान्यम्बाश्चाम्बावयवीश्चाप्सरसः । अम्बया नद्यस्तमित्थंविदागच्छति तं ब्रह्मा हाभिधावत मम यशसा विजरां वा अयं नदीं प्रापन्न वा अयं जरयिष्यतीति
sa etaṃ devayānaṃ panthānamāsādyāgnilokamāgacchati sa vāyulokaṃ sa varuṇalokaṃ sa ādityalokaṃ sa indralokaṃ sa prajāpatilokaṃ sa brahmalokaṃ tasya ha vā etasya brahmalokasyārohṛdo muhūrto'nveṣṭihā virajā nadīlyo vṛkṣaḥ sālajyaṃ saṃsthānamaparājitamāyatanamindraprajāpatī dvāragopau | vibhupramitaṃ vicakṣaṇā''sandyamitaujāḥ paryaṅkaḥ priyā ca mānasī pratirūpā ca cākṣuṣī puṣpāṇyāvayatau vai ca jagānyambāścāmbāvayavīścāpsarasaḥ | ambayā nadyastamitthaṃvidāgacchati taṃ brahmā hābhidhāvata mama yaśasā vijarāṃ vā ayaṃ nadīṃ prāpanna vā ayaṃ jarayiṣyatīti
He, having entered on this path of the gods, comes to the world of fire, then to the world of wind, to the world of Varuṇa, to the world of the sun, to the world of Indra, to the world of Prajāpati, to the world of Brahmā. And in this world of Brahmā there are the lake Āra, the moments Yeṣṭiha, the river Vijarā — the Unaging, the tree Ilya, the city Sālajya, the abode Aparājita — the Unconquered, the two doorkeepers Indra and Prajāpati, the hall Vibhupramita, the throne Vicakṣaṇā — the Far-seeing, the couch Amitaujas — of Boundless Might, and the beloved Mānasī, born of mind, and her likeness Cākṣuṣī, born of the eye, who weave flowers and worlds, and the mothers, and the nurses, and the apsarases, and the rivers Ambayā. To it comes the one who knows thus. And Brahmā said: “Run to him! By my glory he has reached the river Unaging — truly, he shall not grow old.”
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here begins the description of the path of the gods — the devayāna — the road walked not by the one who failed to answer the moon, but by the one who passed the gate.
The list of worlds is built as an ascent: fire, wind, Varuṇa, the sun, Indra, Prajāpati and, at last, Brahmā. The same road is described in the Chāndogya and the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, and in the Gītā it is named the road from which there is no return. Notice that the road passes through the deities, not past them: the traveller does not cancel the universe — he passes clean through it.
Then comes the inventory of Brahmā's world, and it is made as one describes a palace: a lake, a grove, a river, a tree, a city, a hall, guards at the gate, a chamber, a throne, a couch. The names speak. Vijarā — “the Unaging”: the river whose crossing takes away age. Aparājita — the “Unconquered” hall. Vicakṣaṇā — the “Far-seeing” throne. Amitaujas — the couch “of Boundless Might”. The world of the Highest is described not by light and not by negations, but by the furnishings of an inhabited house.
A pair deserves special note: Mānasī, “born of mind”, and Cākṣuṣī, “born of the eye” — they “weave flowers and worlds”. A bold image: what we call worlds is, for that abode, weaving — handiwork, garlands.
And the mantra's end matters more than the whole inventory. Brahmā does not await the newcomer on his throne — he sends out to meet him: “run to him!” The guest does not go to the host to seek admittance; the host gives orders for the welcome. So too in the first part of the Gopāla-tāpanī it is said that the Lord reveals the abode “with care and at once”.
And the reason is given: “by my glory he has reached the river Unaging”. He arrived not by his own strength — mama yaśasā, by another's glory. The attainment is not credited to the traveller; this is the first, but not the last, remark in this Upaniṣad about whose action accomplishes the way.