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Paingala Upanishad 16: Verse 16

कर्मेन्द्रियाणि ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि तत्तद्विषयान् प्राणान् संहृत्य कामकर्मान्वितोऽविद्याभूतवेष्टितो जीवो देहान्तरं प्राप्य लोकान्तरं गच्छति। प्राक्कर्मफलपाकेनावर्तान्तरकीटवद्विश्रान्तिं नैव गच्छति॥१६॥

कर्मेन्द्रियाणि । ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि । तत्-तत्-विषयान् । प्राणान् । संहृत्य । काम-कर्म-अन्वितः । अविद्या-भूत-वेष्टितः । जीवः । देह-अन्तरम् । प्राप्य । लोक-अन्तरम् । गच्छति । प्राक् । कर्म-फल-पाकेन । आवर्त-अन्तर-कीट-वत् । विश्रान्तिम् । न । एव । गच्छति ।

Sanskrit recitationPaingala Upanishad 16

karmendriyāṇi jñānendriyāṇi tattadviṣayān prāṇān saṃhṛtya kāmakarmānvito’vidyābhūtaveṣṭito jīvo dehāntaraṃ prāpya lokāntaraṃ gacchati | prākkarmaphalapākenāvartāntarakīṭavad viśrāntiṃ naiva gacchati ||16||

Habiendo replegado los órganos de acción, los órganos de conocimiento, sus respectivos objetos y los alientos vitales (prāṇa), el jīva—acompañado de deseo y de karma, y envuelto por la avidyā—alcanza otro cuerpo y va a otro mundo. Hasta que maduren los frutos de las acciones anteriores, no llega en absoluto al reposo, como un gusano que pasa de un remolino a otro.

Having withdrawn (gathered up) the organs of action, the organs of knowledge, their respective objects, and the vital breaths, the individual self—accompanied by desire and action, and enveloped by ignorance—attains another body and goes to another world. Until the ripening of the fruits of prior actions, it does not at all reach rest, like a worm (moving) from one whirlpool to another.

Saṃsāra; karma-phala; avidyā; transmigration (punarjanma)Mahavakya: Indirect: contrasts the transmigrating jīva (avidyā-upādhi) with the non-transmigrating Self implied by ‘ayam ātmā brahma’/‘tat tvam asi’.AtharvaChandas: Prose

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