अथ ह चक्षुर् ऊचुः त्वं नः उद्गाय इति तथा इति तेभ्यः चक्षुर् उदगायत् यः चक्षुषि भोगः तम् देवेभ्यः आगायत् यत् कल्याणम् पश्यति तद् आत्मने ते अविदुः अनेन वै नः उद्गात्रा अत्येष्यन्ति इति तम् अभिद्रुत्य पाप्मना अविध्यन् सः यः सः पाप्मा यद् एव इदम् अप्रतिरूपम् पश्यति सः एव सः पाप्मा
atha ha cakṣur ūcuḥ tvaṃ naḥ udgāya iti tathā iti tebhyaḥ cakṣur udagāyat yaḥ cakṣuṣi bhogaḥ tam devebhyaḥ āgāyat yat kalyāṇam paśyati tad ātmane te aviduḥ anena vai naḥ udgātrā atyeṣyanti iti tam abhidrutya pāpmanā avidhyan saḥ yaḥ saḥ pāpmā yad eva idam apratirūpam paśyati saḥ eva saḥ pāpmā
Then they said to sight: "Sing the udgītha for us!" — "So be it," and it sang: the enjoyment that is in sight it sang out for the gods, but the good that lies in seeing it sang for itself. The asuras understood: "With this singer they will surpass us!" — they fell upon it and pierced it with evil. That evil is the unseemly thing that people see: that is the very evil.
8ef5281e09db · 发布于 2026年7月27日 00:39:35 UTC
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The third to be wounded is the eye. Its withheld share is "the good of seeing": the sweetness of looking at what is beautiful for oneself; its wound is "unseemly seeing": the eye that sticks to what is forbidden, the thieving glance, the judging glance.
The Upaniṣad is composing the world's oldest phenomenology of temptation, gate of sense by gate of sense, and its conclusion is severe: a sense that lives for itself is defenceless. Not one of the faculties stood alone against evil — the one that will stand is the power which, as will presently appear, has no share of its own.