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

สิ่งนั้นเองคือพรหมันอันไร้ส่วน ไร้ความปรุงแต่ง ไร้มลทิน เมื่อรู้ว่า ‘พรหมันนั้นคือเรา’ ย่อมบรรลุพรหมันอย่างแน่นอน

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)