Verse 14

Ishavasya

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सम्भूतिं च विनाशं च यस्तद्वेदोभयं सह । विनाशेन मृत्युं तीर्त्वा सम्भूत्यामृतमश्नुते ॥१४॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

सम्भूतिम् च । विनाशम् च । यः । तत् । वेद । उभयम् । सह । विनाशेन । मृत्युम् । तीर्त्वा । सम्भूत्या । अमृतम् । अश्नुते ।

IAST Transliteration

sambhūtiṃ ca vināśaṃ ca yas tad vedobhayam saha | vināśena mṛtyuṃ tīrtvā sambhūtyāmṛtam aśnute ||14||

Translation

ਜੋ ਮਨੁੱਖ ‘ਸੰਭੂਤੀ’ (ਪ੍ਰਕਟਤਾ/ਅਭਿਵ੍ਯਕਤੀ) ਅਤੇ ‘ਵਿਨਾਸ਼’ (ਖ਼ਯ/ਲਯ) — ਦੋਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਕੱਠੇ ਯਥਾਰਥ ਜਾਣਦਾ ਹੈ; ਉਹ ਵਿਨਾਸ਼ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਮੌਤ ਨੂੰ ਪਾਰ ਕਰਕੇ, ਸੰਭੂਤੀ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਅਮਰਤ੍ਵ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ।

Academic Translation

He who knows that sambhūti (becoming/manifestation) and vināśa (perishing/dissolution) together—having crossed death by vināśa, he attains immortality by sambhūti.

Verse Context

• Mokṣa through integrated knowledge (vidyā) and engagement (karma); transcendence of mṛtyu via insight into impermanence and realization of the immortal
• Mahavakya: Indirect: points to immortality through realization of the Self/Brahman (as in ‘अहं ब्रह्मास्मि’), while using the empirical domain skillfully rather than absolutizing it.
• Yajur
• Śukla (Vājasaneyī) Yajurveda; commonly transmitted with the Mādhyandina/Kāṇva recensions Shakha
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka-like)