Niralamba Upanishad 13: Verse 13

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

ज्ञानमिति च देहेन्द्रियनिग्रहसद्गुरूपासनश्रवणमनननिदिध्यासनैर्यद्यदृग्दृश्यस्वरूपं सर्वान्तरस्थं सर्वसमं घटपटादिपदार्थमिवाविकारं विकारेषु चैतन्यं विना किञ्चिन्नास्तीति साक्षात्कारानुभवो ज्ञानम् ॥१३॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

ज्ञानम् इति च । देह-इन्द्रिय-निग्रह । सत्-गुरु-उपासना । श्रवण-मनन-निदिध्यासनैः । यत्-यत्-दृक्-दृश्य-स्वरूपम् । सर्व-अन्तर-स्थम् । सर्व-समम् । घट-पट-आदि-पदार्थम् इव । अविकारम् । विकारेषु । चैतन्यम् विना । किञ्चित् न अस्ति इति । साक्षात्कार-अनुभवः । ज्ञानम् ॥

Sanskrit recitationNiralamba Upanishad 13

IAST Transliteration

jñānam iti ca dehendriyanigrahasadgurūpāsanaśravaṇamananididhyāsanair yad yad dṛg-dṛśya-svarūpaṃ sarvāntarasthaṃ sarvasamaṃ ghaṭapaṭādipadārtham ivāvikāraṃ vikāreṣu caitanyaṃ vinā kiñcin nāstīti sākṣātkārānubhavo jñānam ||13||

Translation

„Wissen“ — so heißt es — ist die unmittelbare Verwirklichung (sākṣātkāra) als direkte Erfahrung: dass durch Zügelung von Körper und Sinnen, durch Hingabe an den wahren Guru sowie durch Hören, Nachdenken und tiefes Verweilen in der Betrachtung erkannt wird, dass alles, was die Natur von Sehender und Gesehenem hat, der innere Innewohner aller ist, in allen gleich, unveränderlich wie Dinge wie Krug und Tuch; und dass in allen Wandlungen schlechthin nichts ohne das Bewusstsein besteht.

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Academic Translation

‘Knowledge’—so (it is said)—is the direct realization (sākṣātkāra) as an immediate experience that, by means of restraint of body and senses, devotion to the true guru, and (the disciplines of) hearing, reflection, and deep contemplation, whatever is of the nature of seer and seen is the inner indweller of all, equal in all, unchanging like objects such as pot and cloth, and that in all modifications nothing whatsoever exists apart from consciousness.

Verse Context

• Jñāna (ātma-brahma-sākṣātkāra); dṛg-dṛśya-viveka; caitanya as the substratum of all vikāras
• Mahavakya: Supports ‘prajñānaṃ brahma’ (Consciousness is Brahman) by asserting nothing exists apart from caitanya; also aligns with ‘tat tvam asi’ via the inner indweller equal in all.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Prose