Paingala Upanishad 22: Verse 22

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

इदं ज्ञानमिदं ज्ञेयं तत्सर्वं ज्ञातुमिच्छति। अपि वर्षसहस्रायुः शास्त्रान्तं नाधिगच्छति॥२२॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

इदम् ज्ञानम् । इदम् ज्ञेयम् । तत् सर्वम् । ज्ञातुम् इच्छति । अपि । वर्ष-सहस्र-आयुः । शास्त्र-अन्तम् । न । अधिगच्छति ॥२२॥

Sanskrit recitationPaingala Upanishad 22

IAST Transliteration

idaṃ jñānam idaṃ jñeyaṃ tat sarvaṃ jñātum icchati | api varṣasahasrāyuḥ śāstrāntaṃ nādhigacchati ||22||

Translation

«Вот знание; вот то, что должно быть познано» — желая познать всё это, даже проживший тысячу лет не достигает конца шастр.

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Academic Translation

“This is knowledge; this is what is to be known”—desiring to know all that, even one who lives a thousand years does not reach the end of the scriptures.

Verse Context

• Jñāna vs. śāstra-vistāra; limitation of encyclopedic learning; primacy of liberating knowledge (ātma-jñāna)
• Mahavakya: Indirect: cautions against mere textual proliferation and points toward immediate realization implied by mahāvākyas (e.g., ‘tat tvam asi’, ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’) rather than exhaustive scholasticism.
• Atharva
• Atharva-veda (Paippalāda tradition; commonly transmitted as a Sannyāsa Upaniṣad corpus text) Shakha
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka)