उपनिषद् · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 5.22
॥
देवनागरी
पुण्यक्षेत्रेषु सर्वेषु कुरुक्षेत्रादिषु स्वयम् । बुद्धिपूर्वमघं कृत्वा तदप्याशु विनाशयेत्
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
puṇyakṣetreṣu sarveṣu kurukṣetrādiṣu svayam | buddhipūrvamaghaṃ kṛtvā tadapyāśu vināśayet
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
पुण्यक्षेत्रेषु सर्वेषुpuṇyakṣetreṣu sarveṣuin all the holy fields; in every blessed precinct
कुरुक्षेत्रादिषु स्वयम्kurukṣetrādiṣu svayamin Kurukṣetra and the rest, himself; in Kurukṣetra and others, in person
बुद्धिपूर्वम् अघम् कृत्वाbuddhipūrvam agham kṛtvāhaving done evil with forethought; having sinned with intent
तत् अपि आशु विनाशयेत्tat api āśu vināśayetthat too it will swiftly destroy; this too it will soon annihilate
अनुवाद
“If one in all the holy fields — in Kurukṣetra and the rest — himself does evil with forethought, that too it will swiftly destroy.”
संस्करण
5f6b9bb857c5 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 5:15:19 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
A sin done in a holy place, and with forethought at that.
The śāstras count this an aggravation: in a tīrtha every deed is multiplied, the good and the evil alike. He who sins there sins doubly, for he sins where he came to be cleansed.
And Kurukṣetra is named — the very one with which the whole uttara-tāpanī began.
Recall its first chapter. Bṛhaspati asked what Kurukṣetra is; he was answered that it is the avimukta, and that “wherever anyone goes, let him think it that very place”.
Here its name appears again, and in the directly opposite connection: not as a place of salvation, but as a place where one can sin.
This neighbourhood is instructive. The holiness of a place does not shield the one standing in it; it only magnifies what he does.
Hence the book transferred the avimukta into the man — into the joint of brows and nose, as the third chapter said. The place that is always with you can be neither defiled nor abandoned.