Chapter 1
19 verses
Section 119 verses
1ईशावास्य उपनिषद्All this-whatsoever moves in this universe (and those that move not) is covered (indwelt or pervaded or enveloped or clothed) by the Lord. That renounced, enjoy. do not covet the wealth of any man.
2कुर्वन्नेवेह कर्माणि जिजीविषेच्छतँ् समाः ।Performing verily works in this world one should wish to live a hundred years. Thus it is right for thee and not otherwise than this. Action will not bind that man.
3असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः ।Sunless (godless) are those worlds covered over with gloomy darkness. Those people who are slayers of their souls go to these (worlds) after they leave their bodies.
4अनेजदेकं मनसो जवीयो नैनद्देवा आप्नूवन्पूर्वमर्षत् । तद्धावतोऽन्यानत्येति तिष्ठत्तस्मिन्नपो मातरिश्वा दधातिIt (Atman) is motionless, one, swifter than mind. The Devas (the senses) could not overtake it which ran before them. Sitting, it goes faster than those who run after it. By it, Matarisvan (the air, utratman) supports the activity of all living beings.
5तदेजति तन्नैजति तद्दूरे तद्वन्तिके ।It (the Atman) moves and it moves not. It is distant and it is near. It is within all this and It is also outside all this.
6यस्तु सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मन्येवानुपश्यति ।He who sees all beings in the Self (Atman) and the Self in all beings, shrinks not from anything thereafter.
7यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मैवाभूद्विजानतः ।When, to the knower, all beings become one with his own Atman, how shall he be deluded, what grief is there when he sees everywhere oneness?
8स पर्यगाच्छुक्रमकायमव्रणमस्नाविरँ् शुद्धमपापविद्धम् ।He (Atman) is all-pervading, bright, bodiless, scatheless, without muscles, pure, untouched by sin (evil), wise (seer), omniscient, transcendent, self-sprung. He duly alloted to the various eternal creators their respective functions.
9अन्धन्तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽविद्यामुपासते ।They who worship Avidya alone fall into blind darkness: and the who worship Vidya alone fall into even greater darkness.
10अन्यदेवाहुर्विद्ययान्यदाहुरविद्यया ।One thing, it is said, is obtained from Vidya (Knowledge of the deities) and another from Avidya (ignorance, performance of ritualistic Karma). Thus we have heard from the wise who taught (both) to us.
11विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस्तद्वेदोभयँ् सह ।He who knows at the same time both Vidya and Avidya overcomes death by Avidya and obtains Immortality by Vidya.
12अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽसम्भूतिमुपासते ।They fall into blind darkness who worship the unborn Prakriti. They fall into greater darkness who devote themselves to the Karya Brahman alone.
13अन्यदेवाहुः सम्भवादन्यदाहुरसम्भवात् ।One thing, it is said, is obtained from the worship of Hiranyagarbha and another from the worship of unborn Prakriti. Thus we have heard from the wise who taught us this.
14संभूतिं च विनाशं च यस्तद्वेदोभयँ् सह ।He who worships the unborn Prakriti and Hiranyagarbha (destruction) together, overcomes death through the worship of Hiranyagarbha and obtains immortality through the worship of unborn Prakriti.
15हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् ।The face of Truth is covered by a golden vessel. Remove, O Sun, the covering, for the law of the Truth, That I may Behold it.
16पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन्समूह ।O Pushan (Sun, nourisher), only seer (sole traveller of the Heavens), controller of all (Yama), Surya, son of Prajapati, disperse thy rays and gather up thy burning light. I behold they glorious from. I am He, the Purusha within thee.
17वायुरनिलममृतमथेदं भस्मांत्ँ शरीरम् ।।(Let my) Prana melt into the all-pervading Air, the eternal Sutratman, and let this body be burnt by fire to aches. Om! O mind! remember, remember, my deeds! O mind! remember, remember, my deeds!
18अग्ने नय सुपथा राये अस्मान्विश्वानि देव वयुनानि विद्वान् ।O Agni! Lead us on to wealth (bliss, Mukti, beatitude) by a good path, as Thou knowest, O God! all the ways. Remove the crooked sin from within us. We offer Thee our best salutations.
19पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते ।