{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/tmu/tmu09.htm","path":"hin/tmu/tmu09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/tmu/tmu09.htm","text":"Thirty Minor Upanishads, tr. by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar, [1914]\nOm. Prostrations to N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a wearing conch, discus, and mace, 2 by whom the Yogi is released from the bondage of the cycle of rebirth through the utterance of Him who is of the form of Pra\u1e47ava, the Om, composed of the three letters A, U, and M, who is the uniform bliss and who is the Brahmapurusha (all-pervading Purusha). Om. Therefore the reciter of the Man\u1e6dra \"Om-namo-N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47\u0101ya\" reaches the Vaiku\u1e47tha world. It is the heart-Kamala (lotus), viz., the city of Brahman. It is effulgent like lightning, shining like a lamp. It is Brahma\u1e47ya (the presider over the city of Brahman) that is the son of \u1e0cevak\u012b. It is Brahma\u1e47ya that is Ma\u1e0dhus\u016b\u1e0dana (the killer of Ma\u1e0dhu). It is Brahma\u1e47ya that is Pu\u1e47dar\u012bk\u0101ksha (lotus-eyed). It is Brahma\u1e47ya, Vish\u1e47u that is Achyu\u1e6da (the indestructible). He who meditates upon that sole N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a who is latent in all beings, who is the causal Purusha, who is causeless, who is Parabrahman, the Om, who is without pains and delusion and who is all-pervading\u2014that person is never subject to pains. From the dual, he becomes the fearless non-dual. Whoever sees this (world) as manifold (with the differences of I, you, he, etc.), passes from death to death. In the centre of the heart-lotus is Brahman, which is the All, which has Pr\u0101j\u00f1\u0101 as Its eye and which is established in Praj\u00f1\u0101na 3 alone. To creatures,\n[paragraph continues] Praj\u00f1\u0101na is the eye and Pr\u0101j\u00f1\u0101 is the seat. It is Praj\u00f1\u0101na alone that is Brahman. A person who meditates (thus), leaves this world through Praj\u00f1\u0101na, the \u0100\u1e6dm\u0101 and ascending attains all his desires in the Supreme Swarga deathless. Oh! I pray Thee, place me in that nectar-everflowing unfailing world where Jyo\u1e6dis (the light) always shines and where one is revered. (There is no doubt) he attains nectar also. Om-nama\u1e25.\nI am without M\u0101y\u0101. I am without compare. I am solely the thing that is of the nature of wisdom. I am without Aha\u1e45k\u0101ra (I-am-ness). I am without the difference of the universe, J\u012bva and \u012a\u015bwara. I am the Supreme that is not different from Pra\u1e6dyag\u0101\u1e6dm\u0101 (individual \u0100\u1e6dm\u0101). I am with ordinances and prohibitions destroyed without remainder. I am with \u0100\u015bramas (observances of life) well given up. I am of the nature of the vast and all-full wisdom. I am one that is witness and without desire. I reside in My glory alone. I am without motion. I am without old age\u2014without destruction\u2014without the differences of My party or another. I have wisdom as chief essence. I am the mere ocean of bliss called salvation. I am the subtle. I am without change. I am \u0100\u1e6dm\u0101 merely, without the illusion of qualities. I am the Seat devoid of the three Gu\u1e47as. I am the cause of the many worlds in (My) stomach. I am the K\u016btas\u1e6dha-Chai\u1e6danya (supreme Cosmic-mind). I am of the form of the Jyo\u1e6dis (light) free from motion. I am not one that can be known by inference. I alone am full. I am of the form of the stainless salvation. I am without limbs or birth. I am the essence which is Sa\u1e6d itself. I am of the nature of the true wisdom without limit. I am the state of excellent happiness. I am One that cannot be differentiated. I am the all-pervading and without stain. I am the limitless and endless Sa\u1e6d\u1e6dwa alone. I am fit to be known through Ve\u1e0d\u0101n\u1e6da. I am the one fit to be worshipped. I am the heart of all the worlds. I am replete with Supreme Bliss. I am of the nature of happiness, which is Supreme Bliss. I am pure, secondless, and eternal. I am devoid of beginning. I am free from the three bodies (gross, subtle, and causal). I am of the nature of wisdom. I am the emancipated One. I have a wondrous form. I am free from impurity.\n[paragraph continues] I am the One latent (in all). I am the equal \u0100\u1e6dm\u0101 of eternal Vij\u00f1\u0101na. I am the refined Supreme Truth. I am of the nature of Wisdom-Bliss alone.\nThough I cognize as the secondless \u0100\u1e6dm\u0101 by means of discriminative wisdom and reason, yet is found the relation between bondage and salvation. Though to Me the universe is gone, yet it shines as true always. Like the truth in the (illusory conception of a) snake, etc., in the rope, so the truth of Brahman alone is, and is the substratum on which this universe is playing. Therefore the universe is not. Just as sugar is found permeating all the sugar-juice (from which the sugar is extracted), so I am full in the three worlds in the form of the non-dual Brahman. Like the bubbles, waves, etc., in the ocean, so all beings, from Brahma down to worm, are fashioned in Me; just as the ocean does not long after the motion of the waves, so to Me, there is no longing after sensual happiness, being Myself of the form of (spiritual) Bliss. Just as in a wealthy person the desire for poverty does not arise, so in Me who am immersed in Br\u0101hmic Bliss, the desire for sensual happiness cannot arise. An intelligent person who sees both nectar and poison rejects poison; so having cognized \u0100\u1e6dma, I reject those that are not-\u0100\u1e6dm\u0101. The sun that illuminates the pot (both within and without) is not destroyed with the destruction of the pot; so the S\u0101ksh\u012b (witness) that illuminates the body is not destroyed with the destruction of the body. To Me there is no bondage; there is no salvation, there are no books, there is no Guru; for these shine through M\u0101y\u0101 and I have crossed them and am secondless. Let Pr\u0101\u1e47as (vital airs) according to their laws be fluctuating. Let Manas (mind) be blown about by desire. How can pains affect Me who am by nature full of Bliss? I have truly known \u0100\u1e6dm\u0101. My Aj\u00f1\u0101na has fled away. The egoism of actorship has left Me. There is nothing I should yet do. Brahman's duties, family, Go\u1e6dra (clan), name, beauty, and class\u2014all these belong to the gross body and not to Me who am without any mark (of body). Inertness, love, and joy\u2014these attributes appertain to the causal body and not to Me, who am eternal and of changeless nature. Just as an owl sees\ndarkness only in the sun, so a fool sees only darkness in the self-shining Supreme Bliss. Should the clouds screen the eyesight, a fool thinks there is no sun; so an embodied person full of Aj\u00f1\u0101na thinks there is no Brahman. Just as nectar which is other than poison does not commingle with it, so I, who am different from inert matter, do not mix with its stains. As the light of a lamp, however small, dispels immense darkness, so wisdom, however slight, makes Aj\u00f1\u0101na, however immense, to perish. Just as (the delusion) of the serpent does not exist in the rope in all the three periods of time (past, present, and future), so the universe from Aha\u1e45k\u0101ra (down) to body does not exist in Me who am the non-dual One. Being of the nature of Consciousness alone, there is not inertness in Me. Being of the nature of Truth, there is not non-truth to Me. Being of the nature of Bliss, there is not sorrow in Me. It is through Aj\u00f1\u0101na that the universe shines as truth.\nWhoever recites this \u0100\u1e6dmabo\u1e0dha-Upanisha\u1e0d for a Muh\u016br\u1e6da (48 minutes) is not born again\u2014yea, is not born again.\n37:1 This Upanisha\u1e0d treats of \u0100\u1e6dmic instruction.\n37:2 The three symbols stand for \u0100k\u0101sa, Manas, and Bu\u1e0d\u1e0dhi.\n37:3 In the M\u0101\u1e47d\u016bkya Upanisha\u1e0d, Pr\u0101j\u00f1\u0101 is said to be the J\u012bva in the third state and Praj\u00f1\u0101na is its attribute. Praj\u00f1\u0101na is Prakarsha J\u00f1\u0101na or special wisdom, viz., of looking over the past and the future.","title":"Thirty Minor Upanishads: 7. \u0100\u1e6dmabo\u1e0dha-Up...","type":"page"}