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Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 8 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 8 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 8 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
Canonical source text
कः सविता का सावित्री मन एव सविता वाक् सावित्री स यत्र वा मनस्तद्वाक् यत्र वा वाक् तन्मनस्ते द्वे योनी तदेकं मिथुनम् ॥
IAST transliteration
kaḥ savitā kā sāvitrī mana eva savitā vāk sāvitrī sa yatra vā manas tad vāk yatra vā vāk tan manas te dve yonī tad ekaṃ mithunam ||
Close translation
Who is Savitṛ? Who is Sāvitrī? Mind is Savitṛ; Speech is Sāvitrī. Where mind is, there is speech; where speech is, there is mind. Those two sources are one pair.
Reader-friendly meaning
Mind and Vāk as one pair — a bridge to the Sarasvatīrahasya room.
Meenananda editorial explanation
Speech in this Ashram is kirtan, mantra, and the Guru’s word. Sit with the pair.
Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 8, 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
Who is Savitṛ? Who is Sāvitrī? Mind is Savitṛ; Speech is Sāvitrī. Where mind is, there is speech; where speech is, there is mind. Those two sources are one pair.
বাংলা
সবিতৃ কে? সাবিত্রী কে? মনই সবিতৃ; বাক্ সাবিত্রী। যেখানে মন, সেখানে বাক্; যেখানে বাক্, সেখানে মন। সেই দুই যোনি এক মিথুন।
हिन्दी
सवितृ कौन? सावित्री कौन? मन ही सवितृ है; वाक् सावित्री। जहाँ मन, वहाँ वाक्; जहाँ वाक्, वहाँ मन। वे दो योनियाँ एक मिथुन हैं।