Verse 12

Ishavasya

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽसम्भूतिमुपासते । ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ सम्भूत्यां रताः ॥१२॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

अन्धम् । तमः । प्रविशन्ति । ये । असम्भूतिम् । उपासते । ततः । भूयः । इव । ते । तमः । ये । उ । सम्भूत्याम् । रताः ॥

IAST Transliteration

andhaṃ tamaḥ praviśanti ye ’sambhūtim upāsate | tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u sambhūtyāṃ ratāḥ ||12||

Translation

ये असम्भूतिम् उपासते ते अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति; ये च सम्भूत्यां रताः, ते ततोऽपि भूय इव घोरतरं तमः प्रविशन्ति।

Academic Translation

Into blind darkness enter those who worship the unmanifest (asambhūti). Into still greater darkness, as it were, enter those who are devoted to the manifest (sambhūti).

Verse Context

• Saguna–nirguna (manifest/unmanifest) discernment; limitation of one-sided upāsanā; avidyā of partial views
• Mahavakya: Indirect: warns against absolutizing either the manifest or unmanifest as final; mahāvākya-realization points beyond such partialities to non-dual brahman/ātman.
• Yajur
• Śukla (Vājasaneyī) Yajurveda; commonly transmitted with the Mādhyandina/Kāṇva recensions of the Vājasaneyī Saṃhitā Shakha
• Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (śloka-like)