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.
- 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
- 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.
- Sunless are those worlds called, covered in blinding darkness; there, after departing, go those men who are slayers of the Self.5
- 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.
- 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.
- He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings no longer hides in fear.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?
- 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.
- Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance. Into as if still greater darkness enter those who delight in knowledge.8
- “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.
- Knowledge and ignorance— he who knows both together,9 crosses beyond mortality through ignorance and attains immortality through knowledge.
- Into blinding darkness enter those who worship the unmanifest. Into as if still greater darkness enter those who delight in the manifest.
- “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.
- Manifest and unmanifest— he who knows both together, crosses beyond death through the unmanifest and attains immortality through the manifest.
- The face of truth is hidden by a disc of gold.10 Unveil it, O Pūshan, so that I, steadfast in truth, may see.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
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