奥义书 · Tripurātāpinī 80
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य एवं वेदेति महोपनिषत् । इति तृतीयोपनिषत् ॥ 3
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ya evaṃ vedeti mahopaniṣat | iti tṛtīyopaniṣat || 3
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यः एवं वेद इतिyaḥ evaṃ veda itiwho knows thus
महा-उपनिषत्mahā-upaniṣatthe great upaniṣad
इति तृतीया उपनिषत्iti tṛtīyā upaniṣatsuch is the third upaniṣad
译文
«Who knows thus — such is the great upaniṣad. Such is the third upaniṣad».
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e63b8958a8f4 · 发布于 2026年8月12日 05:00:00 UTC
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The third part is closed. It ended with the diagram, the seals, and the rites, and its closing formula is the same as the others': ya evaṃ veda, «who knows thus». This formula recurs hundreds of times in the upaniṣads, and it is worth pausing on it one last time before the fourth part, where the book will change its subject.
Veda is a perfect of vid, «to know», and means not «came to know», but «knows, having come to know». That is, the talk is not of a moment of understanding, but of the state of a person who carries within himself what he has come to know. This distinction matters for everything read so far. The knowledge these upaniṣads speak of is not information one can receive and set aside; it is closer to a skill than to a report. One who can swim does not recall how to swim — he swims; so too here.
From this it is also visible why the lists, diagrams, and syllables, for all their detail, remain in these books in second place. They can be learned without being known; and what is promised is to one who knows — that is, to one for whom what he has come to know has become his own state, not an entry in memory.