Verse 8

Amritbindu

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

तदेव निष्कलं ब्रह्म निर्विकल्पं निरञ्जनम् । तद्ब्रह्माहमिति ज्ञात्वा ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते ध्रुवम् ॥८॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

तत् । एव । निष्कलम् । ब्रह्म । निर्विकल्पम् । निरञ्जनम् । तत् । ब्रह्म । अहम् । इति । ज्ञात्वा । ब्रह्म । सम्पद्यते । ध्रुवम् ।

IAST Transliteration

tad eva niṣkalaṃ brahma nirvikalpaṃ nirañjanam | tad brahmāham iti jñātvā brahma sampadyate dhruvam ||8||

Translation

ထိုအရာတစ်ခုတည်းသာ ဗြဟ္မန်ဖြစ်သည်—အစိတ်အပိုင်းမရှိ၊ အယူအဆတည်ဆောက်မှုကင်း၊ အညစ်အကြေးမရှိ။ ‘ထိုဗြဟ္မန်သည် ငါ’ ဟု သိမြင်ပြီးနောက် ဗြဟ္မန်ကို မလွဲမသွေ ရောက်ရှိသည်။

Academic Translation

That alone is Brahman—partless, free of conceptual construction, stainless. Having known ‘That Brahman am I’, one certainly attains Brahman.

Verse Context

• Aham-brahmāsmi realization; nirguṇa Brahman (niṣkala, nirvikalpa, nirañjana)
• Mahavakya: Directly echoes the Mahāvākya ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’ (Bṛhadāraṇyaka) in sense and formulation.
• Atharva
• Atharvaveda (commonly transmitted without a firmly fixed śākhā attribution in the extant tradition) Shakha
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka)