奥义书 · Gopāla-tāpanī Uttara 6
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कृष्णेति ब्रह्मचारीत्युक्त्वा मार्गं वो दास्यति
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kṛṣṇeti brahmacārītyuktvā mārgaṁ vo dāsyati
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कृष्णः इतिkṛṣṇaḥ iti"Kṛṣṇa" thus; with the word "Kṛṣṇa"
ब्रह्मचारी इतिbrahmacārī iti"a brahmacārin" thus; and "the celibate"
उक्त्वाuktvāhaving said; having uttered
मार्गम् वः दास्यतिmārgam vaḥ dāsyatiit will give you a road; it will yield you a path
译文
"Say: 'Kṛṣṇa is a brahmacārin' — and the river will give you a road."
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fecbd9571be9 · 发布于 2026年7月28日 14:30:24 UTC
可用语言RUEN用方向键翻颂
The answer is famous and immediately disconcerting. The river will part if one says that Kṛṣṇa is a brahmacārin, that is, one who keeps complete continence.
The disconcertment is legitimate: these are the very women who have spent the night with Him. The word they are told to utter contradicts to the ear what they have just experienced. Of precisely this they will ask in mantra 13.
In the Veda there is a rule: the waters part before truth. So too in tradition a river lets through one behind whom stands an unbroken vow. Here what is put to the test is not the river but the words themselves.
The book will give the answer to the perplexity later, and it will be double. Kṛṣṇa is not bound by a body as we are: His pastimes are not bodily deeds, and therefore He remains untouched. And second: a word spoken in faith works not because we have understood its sense but because it is His.
Note too that it is the river that will give the road — Kṛṣṇa will not part the waters, the waters themselves will. The word once handed over works of itself.