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Bhāvanā Upaniṣad, knower-knowledge-known (Sanskrit Documents recension)

Canonical source text

ज्ञाता होता ज्ञानमग्निः ज्ञेयं हविः । ज्ञातृज्ञानज्ञेयानामभेदभावनं श्रीचक्रपूजनम् ।

IAST transliteration

jñātā hotā jñānam agniḥ jñeyaṃ haviḥ | jñātṛjñānajñeyānām abhedabhāvanaṃ śrīcakrapūjanam |

Close translation

The knower is the hotṛ; knowledge is the fire; the known is the offering. The contemplation of non-difference of knower, knowing and known is Śrīcakra-pūjana.

Reader-friendly meaning

Pūjana is named as a sameness of knower and known — philosophy of identity, not a list of outer upacāras.

Meenananda editorial explanation

This sentence is the heart of the Bhāvanā explorer: a correspondence to sit with, not a rite to perform from a webpage.

Bhāvanā Upaniṣad, knower-knowledge-known sentence, 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

The knower is the hotṛ; knowledge is the fire; the known is the offering. The contemplation of non-difference of knower, knowing and known is Śrīcakra-pūjana.

বাংলা

জ্ঞাতা হোতা; জ্ঞান অগ্নি; জ্ঞেয় হবি। জ্ঞাতা-জ্ঞান-জ্ঞেয়ের অভেদভাবনাই শ্রীচক্রপূজন।

हिन्दी

ज्ञाता होता है; ज्ञान अग्नि है; ज्ञेय हवि है। ज्ञाता-ज्ञान-ज्ञेय के अभेद की भावना श्रीचक्र-पूजन है।