Paingala Upanishad 9 — Verse 9

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

नाशौचं नाग्निकार्यं च न पिण्डं नोदकक्रिया । न कुर्यात् पार्वणादीनि ब्रह्मभूताय भिक्षवे ॥९॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

न । अशौचम् । न । अग्नि-कार्यम् । च । न । पिण्डम् । न । उदक-क्रिया । न । कुर्यात् । पार्वण-आदीनि । ब्रह्म-भूताय । भिक्षवे ॥

IAST Transliteration

nāśaucaṃ nāgnikāryaṃ ca na piṇḍaṃ nodakakriyā | na kuryāt pārvaṇādīni brahmabhūtāya bhikṣave ||9||

Translation

ബ്രഹ്മഭൂതനായ ഭിക്ഷുവിനായി ആശൗചാചരണം ഇല്ല; അഗ്നികാര്യവും ഇല്ല; പിണ്ഡദാനവും ഇല്ല; ഉദകക്രിയയും ഇല്ല; പാര്വണാദി (പക്ഷശ്രാദ്ധം മുതലായ) കർമങ്ങളും ചെയ്യരുത്॥९॥

Academic Translation

No impurity-observance (aśauca), no fire-ritual, no rice-ball offering (piṇḍa), nor water-rite (udaka-kriyā): one should not perform the fortnightly rites and the like (pārvaṇa-ādīni) for a mendicant who has become Brahman.

Verse Context

• Jīvanmukti/ Brahmabhāva; transcendence of ritual obligations (karma)
• Mahavakya: Practical corollary of mahāvākya-realization: one who knows 'aham brahmāsmi' is 'brahmabhūta' and thus beyond obligatory rites; not itself a mahāvākya.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka-like)