Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1.1
Taittirīyopaniṣad 2.1.1
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- Sanskrit
2.1.1
āūṃ saha nāvavatu /
saha nau bhunaktu /
saha vīryaṃ karavāvahai /
tejasvi nāvadhītamastu mā vidviṣāvahai /
āūṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ //
āūṃ brahmavidāpnoti param /
tadeṣā 'bhuktā /
satyaṃ jñānamanantaṃ brahma /
yo veda nihitaṃ guhāyāṃ parame vyoman /
so 'śnute sarvān kāmān saha /
brahmaṇā vipaściteti //
tasmādvā etasmādātmana ākāśaḥ saṃbhūtaḥ /
ākāśādvāyuḥ /
vāyoragniḥ /
agnerāpaḥ /
adabhyaḥ pṛthivī /
pṛthivyā oṣadhayaḥ /
oṣadhībhyonnam /
annātpuruṣaḥ /
sa vā eṣa puruṣo 'nnnarasamayaḥ /
tasyedameva śiraḥ /
ayaṃ dakṣiṇaḥ pakṣaḥ /
ayamuttaraḥ pakṣaḥ /
ayamātmā /
idaṃ pucchaṃ pratiṣṭhā /
tadapyeṣa śloko bhavati // 1//
iti prathamo 'nuvākaḥ //
May He protect us both together. May He nourish us both together. May we both acquire strength together. Let our study be brilliant. May we not cavil at each other. Om! Peace! Peace! Peace!
The knower of Brahman attains the highest. Here is a verse uttering that very fact: "Brahman is truth, knowledge, and infinite. He who knows that Brahman as existing in the intellect, lodged in the supreme space in the heart, enjoys, as identified with the all-knowing Brahman, all desirable things simultaneously.
From that Brahman, which is the Self, was produced space. From space emerged air. From air was born fire. From fire was created water. From water sprang up earth. From earth were born the herbs. From the herbs was produced food. From food was born man. That man, such as he is, is a product of the essence of food: Of him this, indeed, is the head; this is the southern side; this is the northern side; this is the Self; this is the stabilising tail.
Here is a verse pertaining to that very fact:
Translations (4)
- Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
Commentaries (6)
- Taittirīyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Taittirīyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Taittirīyopaniṣadvyākhyā — Kṛṣṇānanda, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- Taittirīyopaniṣadvārttika — Sanskrit
Discussed in (5)
- The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies — Potter 1970, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- The Conception of Buddhist Nirvāṇa — Stcherbatsky 1927, English
- Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna — Dutt 1930, English