अङ्गुष्ठमात्रः पुरुषो मध्य आत्मनि तिष्ठति | ईशानो भूतभव्यस्य न ततो विजुगुप्सते ||२.१.१२||
The Person of the size of a thumb stands in the middle of the Self, lord of the past and future. One does not shrink away from that.
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अङ्गुष्ठमात्रः पुरुषो ज्योतिरिवाधूमकः | ईशानो भूतभव्यस्य स एवाद्य स उ श्वः ||२.१.१३||
The Person of the size of a thumb is like a smokeless flame, lord of the past and future. He is the same today and tomorrow.
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नैव वाचा न मनसा प्राप्तुं शक्यो न चक्षुषा | अस्तीति ब्रुवतोऽन्यत्र कथं तदुपलभ्यते ||२.३.१२||
It cannot be attained by speech, nor by mind, nor by the eye. How is it perceived except by one who says 'it exists'?
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अस्तीत्येवोपलब्धव्यस्तत्त्वभावेन चोभयोः | अस्तीत्येवोपलब्धस्य तत्त्वभावः प्रसीदति ||२.३.१३||
It is to be perceived as 'it exists' and in its true nature — of both. For one who has perceived it as 'it exists,' its true nature becomes clear.
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पुरमेकादशद्वारमजस्यावक्रचेतसः | अनुष्ठाय न शोचति विमुक्तश्च विमुच्यते | एतद्वै तत् ||२.२.१||
The city with eleven gates of the unborn, straight-minded one — meditating on it, one does not grieve. Liberated, one is freed. This is indeed That.
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न तत्र सूर्यो भाति न चन्द्रतारकं नेमा विद्युतो भान्ति कुतोऽयमग्निः | तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति ||२.२.१५||
The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and stars, nor these lightnings — how then this fire? Everything shines after that one shines. By its light all this is illumined.
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ऊर्ध्वमूलोऽवाक्शाख एषोऽश्वत्थः सनातनः | तदेव शुक्रं तद्ब्रह्म तदेवामृतमुच्यते | तस्मिँल्लोकाः श्रिताः सर्वे तदु नात्येति कश्चन | एतद्वै तत् ||२.३.१||
This eternal Ashvattha tree has its root above and branches below. That is the pure; that is Brahman; that is called immortality. In it all worlds rest; none goes beyond it. This is indeed That.
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यदेवेह तदमुत्र यदमुत्र तदन्विह | मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव पश्यति ||२.१.१०||
What is here is there; what is there is here. One who sees as if there is multiplicity goes from death to death.
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मनसैवेदमाप्तव्यं नेह नानास्ति किञ्चन | मृत्योः स मृत्युं गच्छति य इह नानेव पश्यति ||२.१.११||
This is to be attained by the mind alone. There is no multiplicity here whatsoever. One who sees multiplicity here goes from death to death.
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अङ्गुष्ठमात्रः पुरुषोऽन्तरात्मा सदा जनानां हृदये सन्निविष्टः | तं स्वाच्छरीरात्प्रवृहेन्मुञ्जादिवेषीकां धैर्येण | तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतं तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतमिति ||२.३.१७||
The Person of the size of a thumb, the inner Self, always dwells in the heart of all people. One should draw it out from one's body with courage, as one draws the reed from munja grass. Know it as the pure, the immortal.
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एषोऽणुरात्मा चेतसा वेदितव्यो यस्मिन् प्राणः पञ्चधा संविवेश ||२.१.१||
This subtle Self is to be known by the mind, in which prana has entered fivefold.
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चित्तेन सम्पन्नमनुप्रविष्टं यो वेद निहितं गुहायाम् ||२.१.१||
One who knows it as endowed with mind, entered into the cave of the heart.
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