उपनिषद् · Yogakuṇḍalinī 3.2
॥
देवनागरी
प्रतिपद्दिनतोऽकाले अमावास्या तथैव च । पौर्णमास्यां स्थिरीकुर्यात्स च पन्था हि नान्यथा
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
pratipaddinato'kāle amāvāsyā tathaiva ca | paurṇamāsyāṃ sthirīkuryātsa ca panthā hi nānyathā
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
प्रतिपत्-दिनतः अ-कालेpratipat-dinataḥ a-kālefrom the first day, at the wrong time
अमावास्या तथा एव चamāvāsyā tathā eva caand new moon, likewise, too
पौर्णमास्यां स्थिरी-कुर्यात्paurṇamāsyāṃ sthirī-kuryāton full moon shall he make it firm
सः च पन्थाः हिsaḥ ca panthāḥ hiand this is indeed the path
न अन्यथाna anyathānot otherwise
अनुवाद
"From the first day, at the wrong time, and new moon likewise; on full moon shall he make it firm; and this is indeed the path, not otherwise".
संस्करण
d16034d6fa37 · प्रकाशित 12 अग॰ 2026, 5:00:00 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
An obscure answer is given, and commentators disagree; it seems the discourse is about fixing the state at full moon. Worth noting is the phrase sa cha pantha hi na anyatha, "and this is the path, not otherwise." This turn recurs constantly in instructions and deserves comment, for it is a mark of every kind of guidance.
Anyone teaching anything tends to say "not otherwise." Sometimes this is true: there are matters where the order is one and cannot be gotten around. But more often it is a manner of speech, meaning not the impossibility of another way, but the speaker's confidence.
One can distinguish the two by a simple mark: does the book allow exceptions elsewhere. This one does: in the second chapter it itself said that some manage without the technique (2.43). So the "not otherwise" here too must be read as emphasis, not prohibition.
The Vaishnava side speaks more cautiously in this regard, and this deserves noting. She asserts that the means is one — the Name; but nowhere does she assert that the path is one and the manner one. Her books are full of admissions that there are many paths, and that each comes by his own; and the Gita says: "in whatever way people come to Me, in that way do I receive them; by My path do people come from every side" (4.11).