उपनिषद् · Mahā 4.14
॥
देवनागरी
ते द्वे ब्रह्मणि विन्देति कर्तृताकर्तृते मुने यत्रैवैष चमत्कारस्तमाश्रित्य स्थिरो भव
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
te dve brahmaṇi vindeti kartṛtākartṛte mune yatraivaiṣa camatkārastamāśritya sthiro bhava
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
ते द्वे ब्रह्मणि विन्द इतिte dve brahmaṇi vinda itifind these two in Brahman; obtain these twain in Brahman
कर्तृता-अकर्तृते मुनेkartṛtā-akartṛte munedoership and non-doership, O sage; action and non-action, O silent one
यत्र एव एषः चमत्कारःyatra eva eṣaḥ camatkāraḥwhere precisely is this wonder; just there is this marvel
तम् आश्रित्य स्थिरः भवtam āśritya sthiraḥ bhavaresorting to it, become firm; having taken refuge in it, be unshakable
अनुवाद
“Find these two — doership and non-doership — in Brahman, O sage; there precisely is the wonder. Resorting to it, be firm.”
संस्करण
db734bdad547 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 6:29:20 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The word for whose sake the verse deserves remembering: camatkāra — “wonder, amazement”.
The contradiction is not explained away to the end, nor smoothed over. It is named a marvel.
This is more honest than feigned clarity. How the doer can be a non-doer cannot be fully resolved by the mind; one can only see that it is so.
Vaiṣṇava Vedānta gave this a name: acintya, “the inconceivable”. Acintya-bheda-abheda — the doctrine of inconceivable difference-and-non-difference — stands on exactly such a coupling, and the word camatkāra here foretells it.
Note the order at the end: not “understand”, but tam āśritya sthiro bhava — “resorting to it, be firm”.
Āśritya — “having found refuge”. One does not arrive at a wonder by inference; one shelters in it.