उपनिषद् Subāla 9.6

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उपनिषद् · Subāla 9.6

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वाचमेवाप्येति यो वाचमेवास्तमेति वक्तव्यमेवाप्येति यो वक्तव्यमेवास्तमेत्यग्निमेवाप्येति योऽग्निमेवास्तमेति कुमारामेवाप्येति यः कुमारामेवास्तमेति वैरम्भमेवाप्येति यो वैरम्भमेवास्तमेति विज्ञानमेवाप्येति तदमृतमभयमशोकमनन्तनिर्बीजमेवाप्येतीति होवाच

लिप्यंतरण (IAST)

vācamevāpyeti yo vācamevāstameti vaktavyamevāpyeti yo vaktavyamevāstametyagnimevāpyeti yo'gnimevāstameti kumārāmevāpyeti yaḥ kumārāmevāstameti vairambhamevāpyeti yo vairambhamevāstameti vijñānamevāpyeti tadamṛtamabhayamaśokamanantanirbījamevāpyetīti hovāca

शब्दशः अर्थ

संस्कृतIASTअर्थ

वाचम् एव अप्येतिvācam eva apyetiinto speech it enters; to speech it withdraws

यः वाचम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ vācam eva astam etithat which sets in speech; what goes down in speech

वक्तव्यम् एव अप्येतिvaktavyam eva apyetiinto the spoken it enters; to the speakable it withdraws

यः वक्तव्यम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ vaktavyam eva astam etithat which sets in the spoken; what goes down in the speakable

अग्निम् एव अप्येतिagnim eva apyetiinto fire it enters; to the fire it withdraws

यः अग्निम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ agnim eva astam etithat which sets in fire; what goes down in the fire

कुमाराम् एव अप्येतिkumārām eva apyetiinto Kumārā it enters; to Kumārā it withdraws

यः कुमाराम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ kumārām eva astam etithat which sets in Kumārā; what goes down in Kumārā

वैरम्भम् एव अप्येतिvairambham eva apyetiinto vairambha it enters; to vairambha it withdraws

यः वैरम्भम् एव अस्तम् एतिyaḥ vairambham eva astam etithat which sets in vairambha; what goes down in vairambha

विज्ञानम् एव अप्येतिvijñānam eva apyetiinto knowledge it enters; to cognition it withdraws

तत् अमृतम् अभयम्tat amṛtam abhayamthat immortal, fearless; it, deathless and unafraid

अशोकम् अनन्तम्aśokam anantamsorrowless, endless; without grief and without limit

निर्बीजम् एव अप्येतिnirbījam eva apyetiinto the seedless it enters; to the seedless it withdraws

इति ह उवाचiti ha uvācaso he said; so he spoke

अनुवाद

Into speech enters that which sets in speech; into the spoken enters that which sets in the spoken; into fire enters that which sets in fire; into Kumārā enters that which sets in Kumārā; into vairambha enters that which sets in it; into knowledge it enters; and into that immortal, fearless, sorrowless, endless, seedless — into it it enters. So he said.

भाष्य

The sixth step: speech, the spoken, fire, the channel Kumārā, the breath vairambha.

Vairambha occurs here a second time: in the fourth khaṇḍa it was named the breath in union with which the sleeper sees “everything — the seen and the heard, the enjoyed and the unenjoyed, the existent and the non-existent”. The breath that gives fullness of vision is here set beside speech.

The neighbourhood has meaning. Speech is that by which a man embraces everything: one can name the seen and the unseen, the existent and the non-existent alike. Of all our faculties only the word is free from the bounds of its object.

The channel's name is Kumārā, “youthful, girlish”. In the list of the sixth khaṇḍa it stood sixth.

Note that this whole khaṇḍa is the answer to Raikva's question, asked in the first mantra, and the answer is deliberately long. The question was short: “in what does everything set?” It could have been answered in one word. But the Upaniṣad leads the asker through all fourteen rows before naming the seedless — and does so, it seems, so that the answer not be had for nothing.

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