Sacred Learning
Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 5 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 5 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 5 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
Canonical source text
सैवात्मा ततोऽन्यमसत्यमनात्मा । अत एषा ब्रह्मासंवित्तिर्भावभावकलाविनिर्मुक्ता चिद्विद्याऽद्वितीयब्रह्मसंवित्तिः सच्चिदानन्दलहरी महात्रिपुरसुन्दरी बहिरन्तरनुप्रविश्य स्वयमेकैव विभाति । सत्यमेकं ललिताख्यं वस्तु तदद्वितीयमखण्डार्थं परं ब्रह्म ॥
IAST transliteration
Close translation
She herself is the ātman; what is other than that is untrue, not-self. Therefore this is the knowing of Brahman, freed from the arts of being and non-being: the wave of sat-cit-ānanda, Mahātripurasundarī, entering outer and inner, shining as one. The one real named Lalitā is the undivided, secondless, highest Brahman.
Reader-friendly meaning
The short Upanishad identifies the Goddess with ātman and with nondual Brahman under the name Lalitā.
Meenananda editorial explanation
Lalitā here is a name of the one real, not an invitation to a private rite.
Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 5, Sanskrit Documents recension. Sanskrit: public-domain Devanagari as encoded at Sanskrit Documents (sanskritdocuments.org). Foundation translations: CC BY-SA 4.0.