उपनिषद् · Mahā 4.53
॥
देवनागरी
अहं त्वं जगतित्यादौ प्रशान्ते दृश्यसंभ्रमे स्यात्तादृशी केवलता दृश्ये सत्तामुपागते
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
ahaṃ tvaṃ jagatityādau praśānte dṛśyasaṃbhrame syāttādṛśī kevalatā dṛśye sattāmupāgate
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
अहम् त्वम् जगत् इति आदौaham tvam jagat iti ādau“I”, “thou”, “world” and the rest — at first; “I”, “thou”, “world” and the like — to begin with
प्रशान्ते दृश्य-सम्भ्रमेpraśānte dṛśya-sambhramewhen the turmoil of the seen has subsided; upon the quieting of the visible's commotion
स्यात् तादृशी केवलताsyāt tādṛśī kevalatāthere comes such singleness; there sets in a like aloneness
दृश्ये सत्ताम् उपागतेdṛśye sattām upāgatewhen the seen has come to being; with the visible having gained reality
अनुवाद
“When the turmoil of the seen — ‘I’, ‘thou’, ‘world’ and the rest — has subsided, that very singleness sets in, and the seen comes to its true being.”
संस्करण
41e83f0b7999 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 6:29:20 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
An unexpected verse, and worth pausing on, for it corrects everything that could have been taken too crudely.
What subsides is listed: not the world, but sambhrama — the “turmoil, commotion” of the seen. Not the object subsides, but the bustle around it.
And then it is said: dṛśye sattām upāgate — “the seen has come to being”.
Come to being — not vanished.
That is, the fruit of awakening is not the world's annihilation, but the world's becoming genuine. While the turmoil kept carving it, it was a phantasm; when the turmoil settled, it proved to be what it is.
This is exactly the image of 4.26: the confusion about the quarters passed, the quarters remained.
Vaiṣṇava Vedānta reads such passages literally and sees no need to soften them: the world is no illusion; illusory is our seeing of the world. Liberation returns to things their genuineness together with their Owner.