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Isha Upanishad 58

Īśāvāsyopaniṣadbhāṣya 58

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andhaṃ tamaḥ praviśanti ye asambhūtiṃ sambhavanaṃ sambhūtiḥ sā yasya kāryasya sā sambhūtiḥ tasyā anyā asambhūtiḥ prakṛtiḥ kāraṇamavidyā avyākṛtākhyā tāmasambhūtimavyākṛtākhyāṃ prakṛtiṃ kāraṇamavidyāṃ kāmakarmabījabhūtāmadarśanātmikāmupāsate ye te tadanurūpamevāndhaṃ tamo 'darśanātmakaṃ praviśanti /
tatastasmādapi bhūyo bahutaramiva tamaḥ praviśanti ya u sambhūtyāṃ kāryabrahmaṇi hiraṇyagarbhākhye ratāḥ //

Now, with a view to combining the worship of the Manifested and the Unmanifested, each is being denounced separately:

Ye, those who; (worship) asambhūtim: Sambhūti means the fact of being born, as also the effect that has this (quality of being born); other than that is asambhūti, called Prakṛti (primal material cause), avidyā (ignorance), and avyākṛta (the Unmanifested). Those who upāsate, worship; this asambhūti—known as the unmanifest Prakṛti, cause, and avidyā, which is the seed of desire and work, and is blinding by nature; te, they; praviśanti, enter into; andham tamaḥ, blinding darkness, which is of a similar nature. Tataḥ than that; bhūyaḥ, greater; iva, as it were; tamaḥ, darkness; praviśanti, enter; ye, those who; sambhūtyām ratāḥ, are devoted to sambhūti—to the manifested Brahman called Hiraṇyagarbha.

Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

Ye, those who; (worship) asambhūtim: Sambhūti means the fact of being born, as also the effect that has this (quality of being born); other than that is asambhūti, called Prakṛti (primal material cause), avidyā (ignorance), and avyākṛta (the Unmanifested). Those who upāsate, worship; this asambhūti—known as the unmanifest Prakṛti, cause, and avidyā, which is the seed of desire and work, and is blinding by nature; te, they; praviśanti, enter into; andham tamaḥ, blinding darkness, which is of a similar nature. Tataḥ than that; bhūyaḥ, greater; iva, as it were; tamaḥ, darkness; praviśanti, enter; ye, those who; sambhūtyām ratāḥ, are devoted to sambhūti—to the manifested Brahman called Hiraṇyagarbha.

Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

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