Īsha Upanishad

Non-duality

Īsha Upanishad

That is full; this is full.2 From fullness, fullness comes out. Taking fullness from fullness, what remains is fullness.3 Om shāntih shāntih shāntih.

  1. Everything here, whatever moves in the moving world, is pervaded by the Lord. Enjoy it by way of relinquishing it; cease to take for yourself what to others are riches.4
  2. Always performing actions here, one may aspire to live a hundred years. Thus for you there is no other way than this, whereby action will not cling to you.
  3. Sunless are those worlds called, covered in blinding darkness; there, after departing, go those men who are slayers of the Self.5
  4. It is one, unmoving, swifter than the mind. The senses cannot reach it. It darts ahead. Standing still, it outruns those who run. Within it the breath of life supports all that stirs.
  5. It moves and it moves not. It is far away and it is close by.6 It is within all this. It is outside all this.
  6. He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings no longer hides in fear.7
  7. For the man of wisdom, in whom all beings have become his own Self, how can delusion, how can sorrow befall that seer of oneness?
  8. He is all-pervading, shining, bodiless, unscarred, without sinews, pure, untouched by sin. He is the seer, wise, encompassing all, self-existent. Through endless time he has ordained objects in due succession.
  9. Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance. Into as if still greater darkness enter those who delight in knowledge.8
  10. “It is other than knowledge,” they say. “It is other than ignorance,” they say. Thus we have heard from the wise who have explained it to us.
  11. Knowledge and ignorance— he who knows both together,9 crosses beyond mortality through ignorance and attains immortality through knowledge.
  12. Into blinding darkness enter those who worship the unmanifest. Into as if still greater darkness enter those who delight in the manifest.
  13. “It is other than existence,” they say. “It is other than nonexistence,” they say. Thus have we heard from the wise who have explained it to us.
  14. Manifest and unmanifest— he who knows both together, crosses beyond death through the unmanifest and attains immortality through the manifest.
  15. The face of truth is hidden by a disc of gold.10 Unveil it, O Pūshan, so that I, steadfast in truth, may see.
  16. O Pūshan, the sole seer, O controller, O Sūrya, offspring of Prajāpati, disperse your rays and gather in your light, so that I may behold your most graceful form. He who is that person afar, I am he.11
  17. Let this life-breath join with the immortal breath. Then let this body end in ashes. Om. Remember, O my understanding, remember what has been done. Remember, O my understanding, what has been done, remember.
  18. Agni, lead us by the good path to prosperity, O radiant one, who knows all our ways. Remove from us our crooked sins. May we offer you abundant words of praise.12 That is full; this is full. From fullness, fullness comes out. Taking fullness from fullness, what remains is fullness.

Om shāntih shāntih shāntih