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Kena (Talavakāra) Upaniṣad 4.9

Kenopaniṣatpadabhāṣya 4.9

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Sanskrit

4.9

1.4.9
yo vā etāmevaṃ vedāpahatya pāpmānamanante svargo loke jyeye pratitiṣṭhati pratitiṣṭhati ||

Yaḥ vai, anyone who; veda evam, realises thus—as spoken; etām, this thing, this blessed knowledge of Brahman which has been already spoken of in the text beginning with "Willed by whom" (Ke. I. 1), which has been eulogised in the text beginning with, "It was Brahman indeed" (Ke. III. 1), and which is "the foundation of all knowledge" (Mu. I. i. 1). Notwithstanding the presentation of the fruit of the knowledge of Brahman in "because thereby one gets immortality" (Ke. II. 4), it is mentioned at the end by way of a formal conclusion. (Such a knower) apahatya pāpmānam, dispelling sin, shaking off the seed of mundane existence constituted by ignorance, desire, and work; pratitiṣṭhati, remains firmly seated anante, in boundless, svarge loke: Svarge loke means in Brahman who is all Bliss. Being qualified by the word ananta, boundless, the word svarga does not mean heaven. Lest the word boundless (ananta) be taken in any secondary sense, the text says jyeye, in the higher, that which is greater than all, in one's own Self which is boundless in the primary sense. The purport is that he does not again return to this world.

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

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