奥义书 · Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4,3.36
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सः यत्र अयम् अणिमानं न्येति जरया वा उपतपता वा अणिमानं निगच्छति तद् यथा आम्रं वा उदुम्बरं वा पिप्पलं वा बन्धनात् प्रमुच्यते एवम् एव अयं पुरुषः एभ्यो अङ्गेभ्यः संप्रमुच्य पुनः प्रतिन्यायं प्रतियोन्य् आद्रवति प्राणायैव
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saḥ yatra ayam aṇimānaṃ nyeti jarayā vā upatapatā vā aṇimānaṃ nigacchati tad yathā āmraṃ vā udumbaraṃ vā pippalaṃ vā bandhanāt pramucyate evam eva ayaṃ puruṣaḥ ebhyo aṅgebhyaḥ saṃpramucya punaḥ pratinyāyaṃ pratiyony ādravati prāṇāyaiva
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सःsaḥhe; that one
यत्रyatrawhere; when
अयम्ayamthis; he
अणिमानंaṇimānaṃthe dwindling (aṇiman, acc.); the growing thin; the dwindling
न्येतिnyetihe goes toward; he enters
जरयाjarayāby old age (jarā, instrumental); by old age; because of old age
वाvātruly; surely
उपतपताupatapatāby illness (upatapat, instr.); by disease; by illness
वाvātruly; surely
अणिमानंaṇimānaṃthe dwindling (aṇiman, acc.); the growing thin; the dwindling
निगच्छतिnigacchaticomes to; attains
तद्tadthat; this
यथाyathāhow; as far as
आम्रंāmraṃa mango (āmra); the mango; the mango
वाvātruly; surely
उदुम्बरंudumbaraṃa fig (udumbara); the udumbara; the fig
वाvātruly; surely
पिप्पलंpippalaṃthe pippala fruit (pippala); the pippala berry; the pippala
वाvātruly; surely
बन्धनात्bandhanātfrom its stalk (bandhana, abl. — 'from the fastening'); from its attachment; from the stalk
प्रमुच्यतेpramucyateit is loosed (pra + √muc, pass.); is freed; it comes away
एवम्evamthus; in this way
एवevaindeed; only
अयंayaṃthis; this man
पुरुषःpuruṣaḥthe puruṣa; the person; the indweller
एभ्योebhyoout of these; of these
अङ्गेभ्यःaṅgebhyaḥthe limbs; the parts of the body
संप्रमुच्यsaṃpramucyahaving got loose (sam-pra + √muc); having been unfastened; having separated
पुनःpunaḥagain; once more
प्रतिन्यायंpratinyāyaṃback by the same way; returning
प्रतियोन्य्pratiyonyto the corresponding womb; to its own source
आद्रवतिādravatidarts; he returns
प्राणायैवprāṇāyaivato the prāṇa itself; to the breath of life
译文
When he grows thin — whether from old age or from illness he grows thin — then, as a mango, a fig or a pippala fruit is loosed from its stalk, so this person, loosed from these limbs, hastens back by the same way to the former place — into life.
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bfc745644aed · 发布于 2026年7月27日 01:13:54 UTC
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The second image of death is from an orchard: a ripe fruit — mango, fig, pippala berry — "is loosed from its stalk" (bandhanāt pramucyate: the word means both "tie" and "bondage"!). The death of one who has grown thin is not the tearing off of a green fruit but the natural loosing of what is ripe: the body has ripened to its falling.
And to where? — "by the same way to the former place — into life" (prāṇāyaiva!): the formula of the transitions, which served dream and waking, is applied to death without a single new word: the same shuttle, the same road, only the station is called "life" — a new one. Death is written into the row of familiar returns; its terror is dissolved by the grammar of the everyday. A fruit falls — but remember the orchard: the falling of the fruit is how the seed sets out further.