Paramahansa Upanishad: Verse 1
अथ योगिनं परमहंसं कोऽयं मार्गस्तेषां का स्थितिरिति नारदो भगवन्तमुपगत्योवाच । तं भगवानाह । योऽयं परमहंसमार्गो लोके दुर्लभतरो न तु बाहुल्यो; यद्येको भवति स एव नित्यपूतस्थः, स एव वेदपुरुष इति विदुषो मन्यन्ते । महापुरुषो यच्चित्तं तत्सर्वदा मय्येवावतिष्ठते; तस्मादहं च तस्मिन्नेवावस्थीयते । असौ स्वपुत्रमित्रकलत्रबन्ध्वादीन् शिखायज्ञोपवीते स्वाध्यायं च सर्वकर्माणि संन्यस्य, अयं ब्रह्माण्डं च हित्वा, कौपीनं दण्डमाच्छादनं च स्वशरीरोपभोगार्थाय च लोकस्योपकारार्थाय च परिगृह्णीयात्; तच्च न मुख्योऽस्ति । कोऽयं मुख्य इति चेदयं मुख्यः ॥ १॥
अथ । योगिनम् । परमहंसम् । कः । अयम् । मार्गः । तेषाम् । का । स्थितिः । इति । नारदः । भगवन्तम् । उपगत्य । उवाच । तम् । भगवान् । आह । यः । अयम् । परमहंस-मार्गः । लोके । दुर्लभतरः । न । तु । बाहुल्यः । यदि । एकः । भवति । सः । एव । नित्य-पूत-स्थः । सः । एव । वेद-पुरुषः । इति । विदुषः । मन्यन्ते । महा-पुरुषः । यत् । चित्तम् । तत् । सर्वदा । मयि । एव । अवतिष्ठते । तस्मात् । अहम् । च । तस्मिन् । एव । अवस्थीयते । असौ । स्व-पुत्र-मित्र-कलत्र-बन्धु-आदीन् । शिखा-यज्ञोपवीते । स्वाध्यायम् । च । सर्व-कर्माणि । संन्यस्य । अयम् । ब्रह्माण्डम् । च । हित्वा । कौपीनम् । दण्डम् । आच्छादनम् । च । स्व-शरीर-उपभोग-अर्थाय । च । लोकस्य । उपकार-अर्थाय । च । परिगृह्णीयात् । तत् । च । न । मुख्यः । अस्ति । कः । अयम् । मुख्यः । इति । चेत् । अयम् । मुख्यः ॥ १॥
atha yoginaṃ paramahaṃsaṃ ko'yaṃ mārgaḥ teṣāṃ kā sthitir iti nārado bhagavantam upagatya uvāca | taṃ bhagavān āha | yo'yaṃ paramahaṃsa-mārgo loke durlabhataraḥ na tu bāhulyaḥ; yady eko bhavati sa eva nitya-pūta-sthaḥ, sa eva veda-puruṣa iti viduṣo manyante | mahāpuruṣo yac cittaṃ tat sarvadā mayy evāvatiṣṭhate; tasmād ahaṃ ca tasminn evāvasthīyate | asau sva-putra-mitra-kalatra-bandhv-ādīn śikhā-yajñopavīte svādhyāyaṃ ca sarva-karmāṇi saṃnyasya, ayaṃ brahmāṇḍaṃ ca hitvā, kaupīnaṃ daṇḍam ācchādanaṃ ca sva-śarīropabhogārthāya ca lokasyopakārārthāya ca parigṛhṇīyāt; tac ca na mukhyo'sti | ko'yaṃ mukhya iti ced ayaṃ mukhyaḥ || 1 ||
ထို့နောက် နာရဒသည် ဘဂဝန်ထံသို့ ချဉ်းကပ်၍ “ပရမဟံသဟု ခေါ်သော ယောဂီသည် မည်သူနည်း။ သူ၏ လမ်းစဉ်သည် အဘယ်နည်း၊ သူ၏ အနေအထားသည် မည်သို့နည်း” ဟု မေးလျှောက်၏။ ဘဂဝန်က “ပရမဟံသ၏ လမ်းစဉ်သည် လောက၌ အလွန်ရှားပါး၍ မပျံ့နှံ့။ ထိုသို့သောသူ တစ်ဦးတည်းရှိလျှင်ပင် သူတည်းသာ အမြဲသန့်ရှင်းစင်ကြယ်၍ ဗေဒသိဒ္ဓိ၏ ရုပ်သဘောဖြစ်သော ‘ဗေဒပုရုရှ’ ဟု ပညာရှိတို့ ယူဆကြ၏။ မဟာပုရုရှ၏ စိတ်သည် အမြဲ ငါ၌ တည်နေသဖြင့် ငါလည်း သူ၌သာ တည်၏။ သား၊ မိတ်ဆွေ၊ ဇနီး၊ ဆွေမျိုးစသည်တို့ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ဆံထုံး (śikhā) နှင့် သန့်ရှင်းကြိုး (yajñopavīta) ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ဗေဒစာတော်ဖတ်ခြင်းနှင့် အခမ်းအနားကမ္မများအားလုံးကိုလည်းကောင်း စွန့်လွှတ်၍ ဤ ‘ဗြဟ္မာဏ္ဍ’ (လောကီဝန်းကျင်) ကိုပါ စွန့်ပြီးနောက် ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာထိန်းသိမ်းရန်နှင့် လောကအကျိုးပြုရန်သာ လင်ကွတ်၊ တောင်တံ (ဒဏ္ဍ) နှင့် အဖုံးအကာကို ယူနိုင်သည်။ သို့သော် ထိုအရာများသည် အဓိကလက္ခဏာ မဟုတ်။ “အဓိကသည် အဘယ်နည်း” ဟု မေးလျှင်—ဤအရာတည်းဟူသည် အဓိကဖြစ်၏။
Now Nārada approached the Blessed One and said: “Who is the yogin called a Paramahaṃsa? What is his path, and what is his state?” The Blessed One replied: “This path of the Paramahaṃsa is exceedingly rare in the world and not widespread. If there is even one such person, he alone abides as ever-purified; the knowers consider him to be the ‘Person of the Veda’ (the embodiment of Vedic realization). The great person—whose mind ever rests in Me—therefore I too abide in him alone. Having renounced son, friends, wife, relatives and the like; the topknot and sacred thread; Vedic recitation and all rites; and having abandoned this ‘cosmic egg’ (worldly sphere), he may take up a loincloth, a staff, and a covering—only for the maintenance of the body and for the welfare of the world; yet these are not the essential (mark). If it is asked, ‘What is the essential?’—this is the essential.”
- ko'yaṃ → kaḥ ayam
- upagatya uvāca → upagatya + uvāca
- yo'yaṃ → yaḥ ayam
- mayy evā- → mayi eva avatiṣṭhate
- tasminn evā- → tasmin eva avasthīyate
- bandhv-ādīn → bandhu-ādīn
- mukhyo'sti → mukhyaḥ asti
- cedayaṃ → cet ayam
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