Maa Kali dressed with lights, flowers, and the scythe of the shrine.

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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

saivātmā tato ’nyam asatyam anātmā | ata eṣā brahmāsaṃvittir bhāvabhāvakalāvinirmuktā cidvidyādvītīyabrahmasaṃvittiḥ saccidānandalaharī mahātripurasundarī bahir antaranupraviśya svayam ekaiva vibhāti | satyam ekaṃ lalitākhyaṃ vastu tad advitīyam akhaṇḍārthaṃ paraṃ brahma ||

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.

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English

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.

বাংলা

তিনিই আত্মা; তা ছাড়া অসত্য, অনাত্মা। তাই ইহা ব্রহ্মজ্ঞান, ভাব-অভাবের কলামুক্ত: সচ্চিদানন্দের লহরী, মহাত্রিপুরসুন্দরী, বাইরে-ভিতরে প্রবেশ করে একরূপে ভাসমান। ললিতা নামে এক সত্য অখণ্ড অদ্বিতীয় পরব্রহ্ম।

हिन्दी

वही आत्मा हैं; उससे अन्य असत्य, अनात्मा। अतः यह ब्रह्म-संवित्ति है, भाव-अभाव की कलाओं से मुक्त: सच्चिदानन्द की लहरी, महात्रिपुरसुन्दरी, बाहर- भीतर प्रवेश कर एक रूप से चमकती हैं। ललिता नाम का एक सत्य अखण्ड अद्वितीय परब्रह्म है।