उपनिषद् · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.45
॥
देवनागरी
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च जीवः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca jīvaḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
यः च जीवःyaḥ ca jīvaḥand who is the jīva; and the one who is the living being
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
अनुवाद
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is the jīva. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The thirty-first name is jīva, the living being, and this is the most dangerous place in the litany for an inattentive reading.
It can be read two ways. One reading: there is no soul apart; there is only He. The other, which Vaiṣṇava Vedānta holds: the soul is of one essence with Him, but not identical.
For the second speaks this whole book.
Its fourteenth paragraph said what the whole litany is for: that He “become pleased and show his own Self”. One shows oneself to someone, not to oneself.
The eleventh paragraph of the first Upaniṣad said: the one who has learned “in this very body is freed from the round and frees others”. One frees others, not oneself.
And the fifteenth paragraph of the second Upaniṣad: for sva-bhaktas, “his own devotees”, He kills death by mere remembrance. His devotees — so there is someone who is devoted.
The sense, then, is this: that by which the jīva lives is He; our nature is one — conscious, not material. Hence one may say that He is the jīva.
The last name of the litany will add to this the last word.