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Taittiriya Upanishad 3.10

Taittirīyopaniṣad 3.10

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3.10.1

na kañcana vasatau pratyācakṣīta /
tadavratam /
tasmādyayā kayā ca vidhayā bahvannaṃ prāpnuyāt /
arādhyasmā annamityācakṣate /
etadvai mukhato 'nam̐ rāddham /
mukhato 'smā annam̐ rādhyate /
etadvai madhyato 'nam̐ rāddham /
madhyato 'smā annam̐ rādhyate /
edadvai antato 'nnam̐ rāddham /
antato 'smā annam̐ rādhyate // 1//

His vow is that he should not refuse anyone come for shelter. Therefore one should collect plenty of food by whatsoever means he may. (And one should collect food for the further reason that) they say, "Food is ready for him". Because he offers cooked food in his early age with honour, food falls to his share in the early age with honour. Because he offers food in his middle age with medium courtesy, food falls to his share in his middle age with medium honour. Because he offers food in this old age with scant esteem, food falls to his share in old age with scant consideration. To him who knows thus (comes the result as described).

(Brahman is to be meditated on) as preservation in speech; as acquisition and preservation in exhaling and inhaling; as action in the hands; as movement in the feet; as discharge in the anus. These are meditations on the human plane.

Then follow the divine ones. (Brahman is to be meditated on) as contentment in rain; as energy in lightning.

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

3.10.2

ya evaṃ veda /
kṣema iti vāci /
yogakṣema iti prāṇāpānayoḥ /
karmeti hastayoḥ /
gatiriti pādayoḥ /
vimuktiriti pāyau /
iti mānuṣīḥ samājñāḥ /
atha daivīḥ /
tṛptiriti vṛṣṭau /
balamiti vidyuti // 2//

3.10.3

yaśa iti paśuṣu /
jyotiriti nakṣatreṣu /
prajātiramṛtamānanda ityupasthe /
sarvamityākāśe /
tatpratiṣṭhetyupāsīta /
pratiṣṭhāvān bhavati /
tanmaha ityupāsīta /
mahānbhavati /
tanmana ityupāsīta /
mānavānbhavati // 3//

Brahman is to be worshipped as fame in beasts; as light in the stars; as procreation, immortality, and joy in the generative organ; as everything in space. One should meditate on that Brahman as the support; thereby one becomes supported. One should meditate on that Brahman as great; thereby one becomes great. One should meditate on It as thinking; thereby one becomes able to think. One should meditate on It as bowing down; thereby the enjoyable things bow down to one. One should meditate on It as the most exalted; thereby one becomes exalted. One should meditate on It as Brahman's medium of destruction; thereby the adversaries that envy such a one die, and so do the enemies whom this one dislikes.

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

3.10.4

tannama ityupāsīta /
namyante 'smai kāmāḥ /
tadabrahmetyupāsīta /
brahmavānbhavati /
tadabrahmaṇaḥ parimara ityupāsīta /
paryeṇaṃ mriyante dviṣantaḥ sapatnāḥ /
pari ye 'priyā bhrātṛvyāḥ /
sa yaścāyaṃ puruṣe /
yaścāsāvāditye /
sa ekaḥ // 4//

This being that is in the human personality, and the being that is there in the sun are one.

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

3.10.5

sa ya evam̐vit /
asmāllokātpretya /
etamannamayamātmānamupasaṅkramya /
etaṃ prāṇamayamātmānamupasaṅkramya /
etaṃ manomayamātmānamupasaṅkramya /
etaṃ vijñānamayamātmānamupasaṅkramya /
etamānandamayamātmānamupasaṅkramya /
imāṇllokankāmānnī kāmarūpyanusañcaran /
etat sāma gāyannāste /
hā3vu hā3vu hā3vu // 5//

He who knows thus, attains, after desisting from this world, this self made of food. After attaining this self made of food, then attaining this self made of vital force, then attaining this self made of mind, then attaining this self made of intelligence, then attaining this self made of bliss, and roaming over these worlds with command over food at will and command over all forms at will, he continues singing this sāma song: "Halloo! Halloo! Halloo! I am the the food, I am the food, I am the food; I am the eater, I am the eater, I am the eater; I am the unifier, I am the unifier, I am the unifier; I am (Hiraṇyagarbha) the first born of this world consisting of the formed and the formless, I (as Virāṭ) am earlier than the gods. I am the navel of immortality. He who offers me thus (as food), protects me just as I am. I, food as I am, eat him up who eats food without offering. I defeat (i.e. engulf) the entire universe. Our effulgence is like that of the sun. This is the Upaniṣad.

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

3.10.6

ahamannamahamannamahamannam /
ahamannādo3 'hamannādo3 'hamannādaḥ /
aham̐ ślokakṛdaham̐ ślokakṛdaham̐ ślokakṛt /
ahamasmi prathamajā ṛtā3sya /
pūrvaṃ devebhyo 'mṛtasya nā3bhāyi /
yo mā dadāti sa ideva mā3 ' 'vāḥ /
ahamannamannamadantamā3dmi /
ahaṃ viśvaṃ bhuvanamabhyabhavā3m /
suvarna jyotiḥ /
ya evaṃ veda /
ityupaniṣat // 6//
iti daśamo 'nuvākaḥ //
// iti bhṛguvallī samāptā //
āūṃ saha nāvavatu /
saha nau bhunaktu /
saha vīryaṃ karavāvahai /
tejasvi nāvadhītamastu mā vidviṣāvahai /
// āūṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ //
// hariḥ āūṃ //

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