उपनिषद् · Varāha 5.51
॥
देवनागरी
यत्र कुण्डलिनी नाम परा शक्तिः प्रतिष्ठिता । यस्मादुत्पद्यते वायुर्यस्माद्वह्निः प्रवर्धते
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
yatra kuṇḍalinī nāma parā śaktiḥ pratiṣṭhitā | yasmādutpadyate vāyuryasmādvahniḥ pravardhate
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
यत्र कुण्डलिनी नामyatra kuṇḍalinī nāmawhere the one named kundalini
परा शक्तिः प्रतिष्ठिताparā śaktiḥ pratiṣṭhitāthe supreme power, is established
यस्मात् उत्पद्यते वायुःyasmāt utpadyate vāyuḥwhence the wind is born
यस्मात् वह्निः प्रवर्धतेyasmāt vahniḥ pravardhatewhence the fire increases
अनुवाद
"Where the supreme power, named kundalini, is established; whence the wind is born, whence the fire increases…"
संस्करण
24f23f43ca78 · प्रकाशित 12 अग॰ 2026, 5:00:00 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The power is named directly para shakti, "the supreme power," and this deserves attention. In the teaching set out by this chapter, the highest turns out to be not consciousness and not selfhood, but power, lying at the base of the body. That is, before us is no longer Vedanta, but Tantra; and the difference between the two approaches deserves stating, for it runs through all later Indian literature.
Vedanta proceeds from consciousness: the chief thing is that which knows. Tantra proceeds from power: the chief thing is that which acts. The Vaishnava side stands between them, and it is worth saying exactly how.
It acknowledges that He has shakti, and its teaching of powers is worked out in detail: sandhini (being), samvit (knowledge), hladini (delight), discussed when reading the Dig-darshini-tika. But for it power is never primary: it is a power belonging to someone, and the Vishnu Purana states the relation directly — shakti-shaktimator abhedah, "power and its possessor are not different," but power itself is not the possessor. That is, light is inseparable from fire and yet is not fire.
On such a reading, "the supreme power" is an incomplete expression: every power belongs to someone, and having called it supreme, one has not yet named the Supreme. Let us add that the present verse confirms exactly this: the power is named shiva-sthana, the place of Shiva — that is, still someone's.