महाप्रथमान्तार्धस्याद्यन्तवतो द्वितीयान्तार्धस्याद्यं षणं तृतीयान्तार्धस्याद्यं नाम चतुर्थान्तर्धस्याद्यं साम जानीयाद्यो जानीते सोऽमृतत्वं च गच्छति । तस्मादिदं साम सच्चिदानन्दमयं परं ब्रह्म तमेववंविद्वानमृत इह भवति तस्मादिदं साङ्गं साम जानीयाद्यो जानीते सोऽमृतत्वं च गच्छति
mahāprathamāntārdhasyādyantavato dvitīyāntārdhasyādyaṃ ṣaṇaṃ tṛtīyāntārdhasyādyaṃ nāma caturthāntardhasyādyaṃ sāma jānīyādyo jānīte so'mṛtatvaṃ ca gacchati | tasmādidaṃ sāma saccidānandamayaṃ paraṃ brahma tamevavaṃvidvānamṛta iha bhavati tasmādidaṃ sāṅgaṃ sāma jānīyādyo jānīte so'mṛtatvaṃ ca gacchati
“Mahā” is the beginning of the final half of the first quarter, “ṣaṇa” — of the second, “nāma” — of the third, and so of the fourth: let him know this chant; who knows attains immortality. Therefore this chant is the highest Brahman, made of being, consciousness and bliss; and one who knows it so becomes immortal already here. Therefore let him know this chant with all its limbs.
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The third portion of the riddle — and with it the definition for whose sake this whole row is worth reading.
Of the chant it is said: sac-cid-ānanda-mayaṁ paraṁ brahma — “the highest Brahman, made of being, consciousness and bliss”.
The same formula with which the Gopāla-tāpanī named Kṛṣṇa, and the eighth verse of the fifth Upaniṣad of the pūrva-tāpanī of the Rāma-tāpanī — the form of Rāma. Here it is said of a line of verse in thirty-two syllables.
This is the utmost assertion about a mantra that is possible at all. Not “the mantra leads to Brahman” and not “the mantra describes Him”: it is He.
Recall that the second verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva-tāpanī of the Rāma-tāpanī said already: “the signifier is Rāma and the signified is Rāma”.
And it is added: amṛta iha bhavati — “becomes immortal already here”.
The word iha, “here”, does not stand beside immortality for the first time; but each time it turns the conversation. Immortality is not what begins afterward; it begins where one has recognised.
The words of the riddle — “mahā”, “ṣaṇa”, “nāma” — are the third words of the quarters: mahā-viṣṇum, bhīṣaṇam, namāmi.