Ganapati Upanishad 5 - Verse 5

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Ganapati Upanishad: Verse 5

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

त्वं वाङ्मयस् त्वं चिन्मयः । त्वम् आनन्दमयस् त्वं ब्रह्ममयः । त्वं सच्चिदानन्दाद्वितीयोऽसि । त्वं प्रत्यक्षं ब्रह्मासि । त्वं ज्ञानमयो विज्ञानमयोऽसि ॥५॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

त्वम् । वाक्-मयः । त्वम् । चित्-मयः । त्वम् । आनन्द-मयः । त्वम् । ब्रह्म-मयः । त्वम् । सत्-चित्-आनन्दात् । द्वितीयः । असि । त्वम् । प्रत्यक्षम् । ब्रह्म । असि । त्वम् । ज्ञान-मयः । विज्ञान-मयः । असि ।

Recitation with translationGanapati Upanishad 5

IAST Transliteration

tvaṃ vāṅmayas tvaṃ cinmayaḥ | tvam ānandamayas tvaṃ brahmamayaḥ | tvaṃ saccidānandādvitīyo'si | tvaṃ pratyakṣaṃ brahmāsi | tvaṃ jñānamayo vijñānamayo'si ||5||

Translation

तुम शब्दों से बने हो। तुम चेतना से बने हो। तुम खुशी से बने हो। तुम ब्रह्मा से बने हो। तुम सच, चेतना और खुशी हो, तुमसे अलग कुछ नहीं। तुम सीधे ब्रह्मा हो। तुम ज्ञान से बने हो। तुम पूरा ज्ञान हो।

Academic Translation

You are constituted of speech; you are constituted of consciousness. You are constituted of bliss; you are constituted of Brahman. You are non-second to Existence–Consciousness–Bliss. You are directly perceptible Brahman. You are constituted of knowledge; you are constituted of discriminative knowledge (vijñāna).

Word by Word

tvamyou

vāṅmayaḥmade of speech

tvamyou

cinmayaḥmade of consciousness

tvamyou

ānandamayaḥmade of bliss

tvamyou

brahmamayaḥmade of Brahman

tvamyou

satbeing

citconsciousness

ānandabliss

advitīyaḥwithout a second

asiare

tvamyou

pratyakṣamdirectly perceptible

brahmaBrahman

asiare

tvamyou

jñānamayaḥmade of knowledge

vijñānamayaḥmade of higher knowledge

asiare

Sandhi Notes

vāṅmayaḥ = vāk + mayaḥ (k→ṅ before m)
saccidānanda- = sat + cit + ānanda (t→cch by assimilation)
advitīyo'si = advitīyaḥ + asi (visarga→o before vowel)
brahmāsi = brahma + asi (a+a→ā)

Verse Context

Brahman as Sat–Cit–Ānanda; non-duality (advaita) and pratyakṣa-brahma (immediacy of the Absolute)Mahavakya: Closest in sense to ‘अहं ब्रह्मास्मि’ (Aham brahmāsmi) and ‘तत् त्वम् असि’ (Tat tvam asi) via identity-assertion ‘त्वं … ब्रह्मासि’; framed devotionally toward Gaṇapati as Brahman.AtharvaAtharvaveda (Ganapatyatharvaśīrṣa / Ganapati Upaniṣad; śākhā not firmly specified in the text-tradition) ShakhaChandas: Prose (gadyam)

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