Nirvana Upanishad 3: Verse 3

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अथ निर्वाणोपनिषदं व्याख्यास्यामः । परमहंसः सोऽहम् । परिव्राजकाः पश्चिमलिङ्गाः । मन्मथः क्षेत्रपालः । गगनसिद्धान्तः अमृतकल्लोलनदी । अक्षयं निरञ्जनम् । निःसंशय ऋषिः । निर्वाणो देवता । निष्कुलप्रवृत्तिः । निष्केवलज्ञानम् ॥१-११॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

अथ । निर्वाण-उपनिषदम् । व्याख्यास्यामः । परमहंसः । सः-अहम् । परिव्राजकाः । पश्चिम-लिङ्गाः । मन्मथः । क्षेत्र-पालः । गगन-सिद्धान्तः । अमृत-कल्लोल-नदी । अक्षयम् । निरञ्जनम् । निः-संशयः । ऋषिः । निर्वाणः । देवता । निष्कुल-प्रवृत्तिः । निष्केवल-ज्ञानम् ॥

Recitation with translationNirvana Upanishad 3

IAST Transliteration

atha nirvāṇopaniṣadaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ | paramahaṃsaḥ so’ham | parivrājakāḥ paścimaliṅgāḥ | manmathaḥ kṣetrapālaḥ | gaganasiddhāntaḥ amṛtakallolanadī | akṣayaṃ nirañjanam | niḥsaṃśaya ṛṣiḥ | nirvāṇo devatā | niṣkulapravṛttiḥ | niṣkevalajñānam ||1-11||

Translation

Chalo, ab Nirvana Upanishad ka khulasa karte hain. Main khud Paramahansa hoon, yeh iski baat hai. Jo sadhu ghar chhod ke ghoomte hain, unka sign alag hota hai. Manmatha is mandal ka chowkidaar hai. Baat itni saaf hai jaise aasmaan. Amrit ki nadi hai, lahrein bhi hain. Yeh kabhi khatam nahi, bilkul saaf-saaf. Rishi Nihshanshay hai, koi shak nahi. Devata Nirvana hai. Koi baap-dada ka danda nahi chalta. Gyaan ek hai, doosra koi marg nahi.

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Academic Translation

Now we shall expound the Nirvāṇa Upaniṣad. (Its) subject is the Paramahaṃsa—‘I am He’. (Its) renunciants are the wandering mendicants; (its) external mark is the western sign. Manmatha is the guardian of the field. The doctrine is the sky; the river is the nectar with its waves. (It is) imperishable, stainless. Niḥsaṃśaya is the seer. Nirvāṇa is the deity. (Its) activity is without lineage. (Its) knowledge is non-dual, absolute knowledge.

Verse Context

• Brahman as akṣaya (imperishable) and nirañjana (stainless); nirvāṇa as the goal realized by so’ham-knowledge
• Mahavakya: Implicitly operationalizes mahāvākya practice: identity-realization (so’ham) as a contemplative condensation of mahāvākya teaching.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Prose