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Yajurveda (White / Śukla) · Chapter 40

Adhyāya 40: Īśā Upaniṣad

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1899, *The Texts of the White Yajurveda*, public domain), 1899. Public domain.

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    JEnvelopbd by the Lord must be This All— each thing that

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    Of the two courses, Sfanny48a or Renunciation and Karma or Religions Action, the former, consequent on right knowledge of the Self, is the better way. Only doing Karma: he who desires life is not fitted to follow the higher path and in order to avoid sin he must perform the religiouti works, tueh as Agnihotra (IIL 9) and the like, ordained by the Slstras. Thus, and thu4 only, will he be untainted by evil action, and by a gradual purification

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    Aye, to the Asiiras belong those worlds enwrapt in blinding gloom.

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    It moveth ; it is motionless. It is far distant ; it is near. It is within This All ; and it surrounds This All externally.

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    The man who in his Self beholds all creatures and all things

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    When, in the man who clearly knows, Self hath become all

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    hath attained unto the Bright, Bodiless, Woandlees, Sinewless, the Pure which eril hath not pierced. I^ar-sighted, wise, encompassing, he self-existent hath pres- Grilled aims, as propriety demands, unto the everlasting

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    Deep into shade of blinding gloom fall AsambhAti's wor- shippers.

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    The text now declares the sepurate fruit of each element ci th^Axmt' bined worship of Undeveloped Nature and Uina^yaearbha in order tS teach their combination, having first condemned the cults practised separately. From S<mbhava : frcm thecult of Sambhava which is the same as Sambhuti in verse 9, or Hiranyagarbha. Aembhawi: Undeveloped Nature or Asam- bhilti* The result of the former oult is the attainment of certain supem*.

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    The man who knows Sambhiiti and Vin^Gfa simultaneously^ He, by Vin&sa passing death, gains by SatnbhiUl endless life*

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    To. bliading darkneas ga the men who mate a cult of

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    Different is the frait, they say, of Science and of Nescience. . Thiu from the sages have we heanrd' who hate declared this

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    The man who knoweth well these two, Science and Nescience,

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    My breath reach everlasting Air! In ashes let my body end. Om ! Mind, remember thoa ; remember thou my sphere ;

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    By goodly path lead us to riches, Agni, tbou God who^

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    The Rears fape is hidden by a vessel formed of golden light The Spirit yonder in the Sun, the Spirit dwelling there am L Om! Heaven! Brabm^^l

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    » 11 react merchandise /ormerchandize

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    1, 8, 4

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    » 9 of notes read text for texts

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    ; son of himself, 34, 190; sacrificed, 212; hia three bodies, 35 ; media tor,l96;remover of sin, 42, l$7; King, 55,103, 268;sage,^5,

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    » 7 of notes read the /or he

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    » 19 read Savitar for Savitars

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    » 2 of notes read Achchh4v&ka for Achhav4ka

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    » 5 of notes rea(2 Br&hinaoftchchhamsi /or Br^hmanachhamdi

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    ; one thousttsd so given, 6^ ; Procession of, 164 ; Heaven and Earth, 242; Great Onee, 6, 26; Wealtl^ Ones, 4Sw

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    » 7 from below read Z2for 81

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    • 6 from below read Agnidhra for Agntdhri^

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    ; Visvakarman, 67; Marutvan, 67, 58 ; sprung from the union of Yajtia and Dakshi- nX (Sacrifice and Guer- don), 28; his re-crea-

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    ; Mother o^ Indra, 275 ; of Agni, ; of the Gods, 96; VisJ^- nu's Conjsort, 2^4 ; the Cosmic Cow, 29 ; s^ri- ^cial ^ame of the <;ow,

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    " 1 of notes read recite for recites

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    " 11 of notes react title /or little

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    ■ 11 of notes read dhiehnya for dkiihf^yd

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    ; on three sides of Midday Soma Pressing, Purasha»

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    • 16 rea<i Ye /or Yea

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    • 3 of notes read VHshan for Vrishan

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    » 9 of notes read VariUrU tar Varutris

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    ; his three formi, of 168. AU-llght bricks, 117,189.

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    ; eulogy of, 109— 112; I^ordof, 111.

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    ; present at sacrifice, 88, 89, 98 ; represents Agni, 120^; represents Vik, 120; female, 216; used at purchaseof Som*, 31,

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    • 1 of notes read Prailga for jPraiig

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    ■ 1 read Visvakarman for the Omnific

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    ; becomes Rudra, mospherio ocean, 41, kA, feminine names,

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    a 6 from below read Ayu*i for Ayu*8

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    » 3 from below read SUikaiUha for l^ikantha

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    ; Son of Heaven, Agoiyojana, Equipmeat See Tisve De-rfth.

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    » 1 of notes read mid-regiotk for mid-re^viief

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    ; seven rice-cakes peruatural i>owei-s at- Monkey, 221, 222.

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    » 16 read thou for those

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    f 14 react Mar utvatlya /or Marutvatiya

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    ; ten, 131 ; War- Seven, 130, 151 ; crea- 240,242, 247, 273,285.

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    » 14 react doth /or may.

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    •23 read Sautrftmanl for Santrftmani

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    ; used, symboliz- MA, fanciful name of a 257.

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    « 1 of notes read rain-withholding /or raiii-with>holdiug

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    • 3 from below read turns /or turns*

Commentary

Adhyāya 40 of the Vājasaneyī Saṃhitā (White / Śukla Yajurveda), Mādhyandina recension. 55 verses parsed from Griffith's 1899 English translation. The Yajurveda compiles mantras and ritual prose for sacrificial performance; the Black (Kṛṣṇa) recension — which interleaves brāhmaṇa-style commentary with the mantras — is a separate text not included here.