Tripura Upanishad: Verse 14

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

भगः शक्तिर्भगवान्काम ईश उभा दाताराविह सौभगानाम् । समप्रधानौ समसत्त्वौ समोजौ तयोः शक्तिरजरा विश्वयोनिः ॥

परिस्रुता हविषा भावितेन प्रसङ्कोचे गलिते वैमनस्कः । शर्वः सर्वस्य जगतो विधाता धर्ता हर्ता विश्वरूपत्वमेति ॥१४-१५॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

भगः । शक्तिः । भगवान् । कामः । ईशः । उभा । दातारौ । इह । सौ-भगानाम् ।

सम-प्रधानौ । सम-सत्त्वौ । सम-ओजौ । तयोः । शक्तिः । अजराः । विश्व-योनिः ॥

परि-स्रुता । हविषा । भावितेन । प्र-सङ्कोचे । गलिते । वै-मनस्कः ।

शर्वः । सर्वस्य । जगतः । विधाता । धर्ता । हर्ता । विश्व-रूपत्वम् । एति ॥१४-१५॥

Recitation with translationTripura Upanishad 14

IAST Transliteration

bhagaḥ śaktir bhagavān kāma īśa ubhā dātārāv iha saubhagānām | samapradhānau samasattvau samojau tayoḥ śaktir ajarā viśvayoniḥ ||

parisrutā haviṣā bhāvitena prasaṅkoce galite vaimanaskaḥ | śarvaḥ sarvasya jagato vidhātā dhartā hartā viśvarūpatvam eti ||14–15||

Translation

भग शक्ति है। भगवान कामेश्वर है। दोनों यहाँ अच्छे भाग देते हैं। दोनों बराबर हैं, दोनों में एक जैसी ताकत है। इन दोनों में शक्ति कभी बुढ़ी नहीं होती, वो दुनिया की जननी है। जब भोग के पानी से भावित हो के चढ़ाया जाता है, और जब वो गलन में पिघल जाता है, तब मन से इच्छा चली जाती है। शर्व, जो पूरे जग का कर्ता-धर्ता है, वो देता है और वापस लेता है। वो सब का रूप बन जाता है।

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Academic Translation

Bhaga is Power; the Blessed Lord is Kāma, the Lord: both here are givers of prosperities. Equal in primacy, equal in being, equal in vigor—of the two, the Power is unaging, the womb of the universe. When (the offering) is poured around, by the oblation that has been consecrated, in contraction, when it has melted away, (there arises) dispassion. Śarva—ordainer of the whole world, supporter and withdrawer—attains (manifests as) the state of universal form.

Verse Context

• Non-duality of Śiva-Śakti; Brahman as creator-sustainer-dissolver (Īśvara) and Śakti as viśvayoni; vairāgya through inner yajña
• Mahavakya: Indirect—supports ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’/‘tat tvam asi’ by presenting the cosmic functions (creation–maintenance–withdrawal) as expressions of the one reality (Śarva/Īśa) inseparable from Śakti; realization culminates in viśvarūpa-darśana as a step toward nirguṇa identity.
• Atharva