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

崇奉未显（asambhūti）者，堕入盲暗之中；而沉迷于显现（sambhūti）者，仿佛堕入更深的黑暗。

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)